text: " Though his former visits had in great degree satiated him with galleries and palaces he still found great attractions in the studio of the Roman Landseer Vallati [10] the famous painter of wild-boars; but his great point of attraction seems to have been the bird-market near the Pantheon--the extent of traffic in which may be judged from the statement that during the spring and autumn passage of the quails which are taken in nets of prodigious extent on the shores of the Mediterranean 17 000 of these birds have passed the Roman custom-house in one day