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RUSTICOLA SYLVESTRIS. THE COMMON 

 WOODCOCK. 



Fig. 32. 



Scolopax Eusticola. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 243. 



Scolopax Eusticola. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 713. 



"Woodcock. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Becasse ordinaire. Scolopax Eusticola. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 673. 



Scolopax Eusticola. Woodcock. Flera. Brit. Anim. 105. 



"Woodcock. Scolopax rusticola. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 107. 



Scolopax Eusticola. Woodcock. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 204. 



Scolopax Eusticola. Bonap. Comp. List, 53. 



Upper parts variegated with blackish-brown, chestnut-red, 

 and pale brownish-yellow ; lower parts yellowish-grey, barred 

 with brown. 



Male. — A great favourite with the sportsman, and in 

 several other respects one of the most interesting of the 

 Grallatorial birds, the Woodcock demands special attention 

 from the ornithologist, whose descriptions, however, ought 

 not on any occasion to degenerate into such statements as 

 have reference solely or principally to the mode of procuring 

 game, and the quantities of it obtained. A sportsman's 

 diary is not an ornithologist's guide-book, although it may 



