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paludihus alpinis: ova poiiit 3 — 5. It does 

 not appear from Kramer that woodcocks 

 breed at d\\'n\ Austria: but he says, "Avis 

 " h(EC septentrionalium provinciarum cestivo 

 ** tempore incola est ; uhiplerumquenidijicat. 

 ** App>ropinquante hi/emeaustraiiores provin- 

 " cias petit : hinc circa plenilunium mensis 

 " Octobris plerumque Austriam transmigrat. 

 *' Tunc riirsus circa plenilunium potissimum 

 *' mensis Martii per Austriam matrimonio 

 " juncta ad septentrioiiales provincias redit." 

 For the whole passage (which I have 

 abridged) see Elenchus, &c. p. 351. This 

 seems to be a full proof of the migration 

 of woodcocks ; though little is proved 

 concerning the place of breeding. 



P. S. There fell in the county of Rut- 

 land, in three weeks of this present very 

 wet weather, seven inches and a half of 

 rain, which is more than has fallen in any 

 three weeks for these thirty years past in 

 that part of the world. A mean quantity 

 in that county for one year is twenty 

 inches and an half. 



