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CHAPTER III. 



" Long have I roamed through lands which are not mine, 

 Adored the Alp and loved the Apennine ; 

 Revered Parnassus, and beheld the steep 



Jove's Ida and Olympus crown the deep." 



BVKON. 



The Woodcock Summer and Winter Haunts Decrease in 

 England Erroneous Reason assigned The true Cause 

 suggested Slaughter on the Shores of the Mediterranean 

 and the Adriatic Clumber Spaniels Colonel Parker's 

 Notes Shooting Expeditions to the Morea and Thessaly 

 Kornupeli Aspect of the Country Covers of Arbutus 

 and Oleander Gulf of Salonica Reflections on the 

 preceding Account Protection recommended Distri- 

 bution in the British Islands A Woodcock Battue in 

 Ireland The Common Snipe The Solitary Snipe. 



WHILE the pheasant, the partridge, and even 

 the grouse, are exposed to considerable danger 

 during the breeding-season ; the woodcock is then 

 in the enjoyment of comparative security; the 

 great majority of the species having returned 

 from their winter quarters in the British islands, 

 and the swamps and orange-groves of Italy, 

 Greece, and Albania, to the vast unexplored 

 forests of the North, where they rear their young 



