43* WOODCOCK. Class II. 



America •, but a kind is found there that has the 

 general appearance of it ; but is icarce half the 

 fize, and wants the bars on the bread and belly. 

 Descrip. The weight of the woodcock is ufually about 

 twelve ounces: the length near fourteen inches: 

 the breadth twenty-fix : the bill is three inches 

 long, dufky towards the end, reddifh at the bafe: 

 tongue flender, long, (harp, and hard at the point: 

 the eyes large, and placed near the top of the head, 

 that they may not be injured when the bi/d thrufts 

 its bill into the ground : from the bill to the eyes 

 is a black line: the forehead is a reddifh afh-color: 

 the crown of the head, the hind part of the neck, 

 the back, the coverts of the wings, and the fca- 

 pulars are prettily barred with a ferruginous red, 

 black and grey -, but on the head the black pre- 

 dominates : the quii-feathers are dufky, indented 

 with red marks. 



The chin is of a pale yellow : the whole nnder- 

 fide of the body is of a dirty white, marked with 

 numerous tranfverfe lines of a dufky color. The 

 tail con fills of twelve feathers, dufky, or black on 

 the one web, and marked with red on the other : 

 the tips above are afh- colored, below white; which, 

 when {hooting on the ground was in vogue, was the 

 fign the fowler difcovered the birds by. The legs 

 and toes are livid-, the latter divided almoft to their 

 very origin, having only a very fmall web between 

 the middle and interior toes •, as are thofe of the 

 two fpecies of fnipes found in England. 



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