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birds will sometimes carry them from danger. If 

 one suddenly comes upon a Woodcock and her 

 brood, she will probably snatch up the chick near- 

 est to her and bear it off to a place of safety, and 



WOODCOCK ON NEST. 



I have known them carry a chick across a 

 wide river. The drawback to this latter plan of 

 campaign by the mother Woodcock is that although 

 she has one chick safe, her other children have 

 not benefited much ; and when danger is past she 

 has either to carry her child back to its brothers 



