Cuass Ii. WOODCOCK SNIPE. 
forced away for want of sustenance by the first 
frosts. In the winter they are found in vast 
plenty as far south as Smyrna and Aleppo*, 
and in the same season in Barbary}, where the 
Africans call them, the ass of the partridge: 
and we have been told, that some have appear- 
edas far south as Egy egypt, which are the remotest 
migrations we can trace them to on that side of 
the eastern world; on the other side, they are 
found very common in Japan{. ‘The birds that 
resort into the countries of the Levant, proba- 
bly come from the desarts of Szbiria or Tar- 
tary§, or the cold mountains of Armenial|. — 
Our species of woodcock is unknown in North 
America; a kind is found there that has the 
general appearance of it; but is scarcely half the 
size, and wants the bars on the breast and 
belly. oe 
The weight of the woodcock is usually Sou 
twelve ounces;** the length near fourteen 
inches ; the breadth twenty-six. The bill is three 
* Russel’s hist. Aleppo. 64. + Shaw’s travels, 253. 
- { Kempfer’s hist. Japan. i. 129. § Bell's travels, i. 198. 
|| The woodcock visits Greece, with the first severe weather, 
in November, and does not remain later than Febr wary. Ep. - 
g The little woodcock. Arct. Zool. ii. ae Latham: we 
West. Ep. 
** J have been credibly informed that one was. killed near 
Holywell which reached the weight of twenty ounces. 
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