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The wood-cock indeed is fometimes feen 

 in the foreft : but the rough lawns and heaths, 

 he finds there, do not entirely fuit his appetite. 

 He is curious in the choice of his haunts. 

 He muft have fome fweet woody glen, watered 

 by little oozing mofTy rills, into which 

 he may eafily thruft his beak; and thefe 

 he cannot every where meet with in the 

 foreft. 



The fnipe, lefs delicate in her haunts, is 

 the frequent inhabitant of the wildeft fcenes. 

 Any fwamp, or marfhy fpot will pleafe her; 

 and of thefe fhe finds abundance in various 

 parts of the foreft. 



Plover, of different kinds, are common 

 alfo in it's heathy parts. I have fome- 

 times feen large flocks of the grey fpecies ; 

 and have flood admiring them, as they in- 

 circled the air. In their regular mode of 

 flight, they in fome degree refemble water- 

 fowl : but they, are not fo determined in their 



courfe ; 

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