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(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. 



