TION, 



Class II. WOODCOCK. 437 



mud neceflarily be precarious -, and it according- 

 ly fometimes happens, that the fportfmen on the 

 coaft, for fome years together know not precifely 

 the time of the Woodcocks departure. They have 

 the fame harbingers (the Red wings) in fpring, 

 as in autumn. 



In the fame manner we know they quit France, Migra- 

 Germany and Italy ; making the northern and cold 

 fituations their general fummer rendezvous. They 

 vifit Burgundy the latter end of October, but con- 

 tinue there only four or five weeks ; it being a dry 

 country they are forced away for want of fuftenance 

 by the firft frofts. In the winter they are found in 

 vaft plenty as far fouth as Smyrna and Aleppo *, and 

 in the fame feafon in Barbary f , where the Afri- 

 cans call them, the afs of the partridge : and we 

 have been told, that fome have appeared as far 

 fouth as JEgypt, which are the remoteft migrations 

 we can trace them to on that fide theeaftern world; 

 on the other fide, they are found very common in 

 Japan J. The birds that refort into the countries 

 of the Levant, probably come from the defarts 

 of Siberia or Tartary §, or the cold mountains of 

 Armenia, 



Our fpecies of woodcock is unknown in North 



* RuJfeVs hiji. Aleppo. 64. 



•f- Shanes travels, 253. 



X Kampfer's hijl. Japan. I. 129. 



§ Bell's travels, I. i.^3. 



G g 2 America -, 



