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flights from the Continent about October, when numbers are 

 killed by flying against the lanterns of the lighthouses on the 

 English coast, between midnight and daybreak ; but it is also in 

 part an English-breeding bird, for although the majority of those 





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THE WOODCOCK. 



that arrive in this country in October go back to the North of Europe 

 in March, hundreds remain and lay their eggs and rear their young 

 in suitable places in England. Even within a few years woodcocks' 

 nests have been found at Caen Wood, Highgate, and as near to 

 the metropolis as Streatham. The nests are merely a depression 



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