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HOW SHE CARRIES HER YOUNG. 



sufficient distance, when she presently lets it be understood 

 that she has the full use of her wings. 



It was mentioned in my former work, on the authority of 

 M. Greiff, that the woodcock, when her young are in 

 jeopardy, will grasp them with her feet, and fly away with 

 them to a place of safety. Swedish naturalists and others 

 question the truth of this statement, hut it would seem 

 without sufficient cause. Not to speak of the same story 

 being current and believed in England, my friend M. Oter- 

 dahl, in whose word I have full confidence, was an eye- 

 witness to the fact. 



THE WOODCOCK AND HER YOUNG. 



Once during a hare-hunt," he writes, " I myself shot a 



