170 WOODCOCK. 



mandible ; legs and feet slender ; tarsi of mode- 

 rate length ; tibise only for a short space naked, 

 or altogether clothed with feathers ; wings mo- 

 derate, tips of the quills somewhat rounded, 

 but the first or second longest. 

 Types, Scolopox rusticola, gallinnago, Sabinii, &c. 

 Cosmopolite. 



e. Habits of several, to a certain extent, 

 sylvan, all migratory, or partially so. Squat 

 on the approach of danger. Breeding and 

 winter plumage similar. 



THE WOODCOCK. 



Scolopax rusticola, LINNAEUS. 

 PLATE XI. 



Scolopax rusticola, Linn, fyc. Becasse ordinaire, Temrn. 

 The Woodcock of British authors. 



THE Woodcock is the largest species in the genus, 

 and, from the oldest records, has been in high favour 

 for the table, and since the time that shooting fly- 

 ing has been practised, has been much sought after 

 by the sportsman, to whom it makes an agreeable 



