278 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
(p. 19), Mr. Thomas Southwell recorded the capture 
of a woodcock alive, on the 9th of October, at Lynn, 
under the following curious circumstances :—The door 
of an iron warehouse in that town having been left open 
until half-past six on the previous evening, a porter on 
entering in the morning found a strange bird, that 
proved to be of this species, perched on one of the 
stoves, and which allowed itself to be taken by hand’ 
though in good health and condition. In like manner, as 
Mr. Dowell informs me, a woodcock in broad daylight, 
on the 13th of October, 1849, flew into a fisherman’s 
cottage at Blakeney, and settled in the chimney corner ; 
and on the 7th of November, 1867, one was caught 
alive in Broad Street, Lynn, about ten o’clock in the 
morning. 
With the exception only of that portion of our coast 
line, bordering upon the “ Broad” district, our exten- 
sive seaboard presents an almost continuous range of 
woods and plantations in close vicinity to the shore,* 
cutting through the upper portion of the sternum, and exposing 
the pericardium and pleura.’ The bird appeared to be in a fair 
way of recovery. Mr. Alfred Newton tells me that by the 
side of the road, along which telegraph wires run, between 
Halifax and Windsor, in Nova Scotia, he found an example of 
the American woodcock (Scolopax americana), which had both 
wings and legs broken, and though it was in the afternoon and 
the bird had probably received its injuries in the night, it was 
still alive. 
* Commencing with the shores of the Wash, and within a short 
flight from the coast, are the Sandringham coverts, the “ Kenhill” 
wood at Snettisham (always famous for cocks), the park and woods 
at Hunstanton and Holkham; and still further inland the far- 
famed coverts of Melton Constable and Swanton Novers; whilst 
from Salthouse to Hasborough, with but little interval, the woods 
at Letheringsett, Hempstead, Sherringham, Beeston, Cromer Hall, 
Felbrigg, and Northrepps, on the coast, with Barningham, 
Blickling, and Gunton, within a few miles, have all more or less 
attractions for woodcocks, and in most of them large numbers have 
been killed. 
