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year *. It is likewife known that wood-cocks migrate from France, 

 Germany, and Italy, and that they make choice of cold northern 

 climates for their fummer refidence. About the end of Odlober they 

 vifit Burgundy, but remain there four or five weeks only ; becaufe 

 it is a dry country, and, on the firft frofts, they are obliged to retire 

 for want of fuftenance. In the winter, they are found as far fouth 

 as Smyrna, Aleppo f , and Barbary J. They are even very com- 

 mon in Japan ||. 



6. The fnipe. Snipes are enrolled as birds of paffage by Mr 

 White, though he acknowledges that fome of them conftantly breed 

 in England. * In winter,' Mr Pennant remarks, ' fnipes are very 



* frequent in all our marfhy and wet grounds, where they lie con- 

 ' ccaled in the ruflies, 8cc. In the fummer, they difperfe to diffe- 



* rent parts, and are found in the midft of our higheft mountains, 



* as well as our low moors. Their neft is made of dried grafs. 

 ' They lay four eggs of a dirty olive colour, marked with dufky 



* fpots. Their young are fo often found in England, that we doubt 



* whether they ever entirely leave this ifland §.' 



7. The jack- fnipe. This bird, which is very common in Scot- 

 land, and frequents the banks of rivers and lakes, is ranked by Mr 

 White as a winter bird of paffage, without mentioning either the 

 time of its arrival or departure ; and Mr Pennant is entirely filent on 

 the fubjedt **. 



8. The 



• Pennant's Brltifh Zoology, vol. 2. pag. 349. 8vo. 

 f Ruflel's Hiftory of Aleppo, pag. 64. 

 J Shaw's Travels, pag. 253. 

 II Kaempfer's Hift. Japan, vol. i. pag. 129. 

 § Pennant's Britifh Zoology, vol. 2. pag. ^58. 8vo. 



•* White's Natural Hiftory of Selborne, pag. n 7. j and Pennant's Brififli Zoclo- 

 §7, vol. 2. pag. 359. Svo. 



