LITTLE WOODCOCK. 
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Scolopax minor. Gmel. S^st. Nat. 1. 661. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
714. 
Little Woodcock. Lath. Gen. Sijn. 5. 131. 2. Penn. Brit. ZooL 
2. 365.pl. 19. IVds. Amer. Orn. v. \i. p. 40.pl. xlviii.jT. 2. 
- Much less than the last : length eleven inches 
and a half : beak two inches and a half long : the 
forehead is ash-coloured : the occiput is black, with 
four transverse yellowish bars : from the beak to the 
eye is a dusky line : the hind part of the neck is 
black, edged with yellowish red : back and lesser 
coverts the same ; the rest of the coverts varied with 
black and red zigzag lines : the primary quills dusky : 
the chin is white : the under side of the neck, the 
breast, belly, and thighs are dull yellowish ; the belly 
being palest : the tail is black, tipped with brown : 
the legs pale brown. The young are marked with a 
broad stripe of deep brown along the crown of the 
head, and another line of the same passes through 
the eye to the hind head : back deep brown : throat 
and breast reddish. 
Native of various parts of North America : it begins 
to lay in April ; its nest is placed on the ground or 
on the stump of a tree : the female lays four or five 
eggs of a dun clay colour, thickly marked with brown 
spots, especially at the larger end. 
V. XII. r. I. 
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