2 $6 WOODCOCK:. Clafs it 



cold mountains of Armenia. It is faid that woodcocks 

 are unknown in North America. This is certain, that 

 the bird which Lawfon diftinguifhes by that name, in 

 his account of Carolina *, is the red-breafted godwit : 

 and Mr. Banks has affured us, that they are never 

 met with in Newfoundland.. 

 IDefcr. The weight of the woodcock is trfuaily about twelve 

 ounces: the length near fourteen inches: the breadth 

 twenty-fix : the bill is three inches long, dufky to- 

 wards the end, reddifh at the bafe i the eye large, and 

 placed near the top of the head, as Mr. Willoughfy 

 obferves, that they may not be injured when the bird 

 thrufts its bill into the ground : from the bill to the 

 eyes is a black line : the forehead is of a reddifh afh- 

 color : the crown of the head, the hind part of the 

 neck, the back, the coverts of the wings, and the 

 icapulars, are irregularly barred with a ferruginous 

 red, bl^ck and grey ; but on the head the black pre- 

 dominates : the quil-feathers are diaiky, indented 

 with red marks : the chin is of a pale yellow : the 

 whole underfide of the body is of a dirty white,: 

 marked with numerous tranfverfe lines of a dufky 

 color. The tail confifts of twelve feathers, dufky 

 on the one web, and marked with red on the other : 

 the tips above are afh-co!ored, below white ■, which, 

 when (hooting on the ground was in vogue, was the fjgn> 

 the fowler difcovered the birds bv. The legs and toes 

 are livid •, the latter divided to their very origin ; as 

 are thofe of the two fpecies or inipes found in England*, 



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