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The Irish Naiuralist. 



June, 



THE MIGRATION OF WOODCOCK. 



SOME NOTES ON AN ARTICLE BY CAPTAIN DOUGLAS. 



BY W. H. WORKMAN, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Captain S. R. Douglas has written a most interesting 

 article^ on the migration of Woodcock in Ireland from which 

 I propose making some notes for the benefit of those Irish 

 ornithologists who may have not had the pleasure of 

 reading this valuable paper. 



The experiments were carried out at the instigation of 

 Col. W. W. Ashle}/, M.P., at the Palmerston estates, County 

 Sligo. The property consists of a strip of country lying 



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between the Ben Bulben range and the southern shore 

 of the Bay of Donegal in County Sligo. In the accompanying 

 map an idea of the locality will be obtained, and I would 



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