BRITISH BIRDS. 



12. 



When the Woodcock is pursued by the sports- 

 man, its flight is very rapid, but short, as it drops 

 behind the first suitable sheltering coppice, with 

 great suddenness, and, in order to elude discovery, 

 runs swiftly off, in quest of some place where it 

 may hide itself in greater security. The annexed 

 figure represents a scapular feather of the Wood- 

 cock. 



