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paludibus alpinis: ova ponit 3 — 5. It does 

 not appear from Kramer that woodcocks 

 breed at Austria : but he says, ''Avis 

 " hcec septentrionalium provinciarum cestivo 

 tempore inco la est ; uhiplerumquenidijicat. 

 '' Appropinquante hyemeaustraliores jjrovin- 

 cias petit : hinc circa plenilunium mensis 

 ** Octobris plerumqiie Austriam transmigrate 

 " Tunc rursus circa ple?iilunium potissimiim 

 '' mensis Martii per Austriam matrimonio 

 *' juncta ad septentrionales provincias redit" 

 For the whole passage (which I have 

 abridged) see Elenchus, &c. p. 351. This 

 seems to be a full proof of the migration 

 of woodcocks ; though little is proved 

 concerning the place of breeding. 



P. S. There fell in the county of Rut- 

 land, in three weeks of this present very 

 wet weather, seven inches and a half of 

 rain, which is more than has fallen in any 

 three weeks for these thirty years past in 

 that part of the world. A mean quantity 

 in that county for one year is twenty 

 inches and an half. 



