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afterwards he adds " mdificat in paludlbiis alpinls : ova ponlt 3 5." 
It does not appear from Kramer that woodcocks breed at all in 
Aiiftria : but he fays " Avis h^ec feptentrionalium provinciarum ajlivo 
*' tempore incola eft; ubi plerumque nidificat. Appropinquante hyeme 
ai'firaliores provincias petit : bine circa plenilimium menfis OBobris plertm- 
que Auftriam tranfmigrat. 'Time rurfns circa pleniluniim fotiJ]imum menfii 
Martii per Ai'jiriam matrimonio juntia ad fepteiitrionaks provincias 
*' redit." For the whole paffage (which I have abridged) fee 
Elenclms, &c. p. 351. This feems to be a full proof of the migra- 
tion of woodcocks ; though little is proved concerning the place of 
breeding. 
P. S. There fell in the county of Rutland, in three weeks of 
this prefent very wet weather, feven inches and an half of rain, 
which is more than has fallen in any three weeks for thefe thirty years 
paft in that part of the world. A mean quantity in that county 
for one year is twenty inches and an half. 
LETTER IX. 
T.O THE SAME, 
DEAR SIR, Fyfield, near Andover, Feb. 12, 
You are, I know, no great friend to migration ; and the well at- 
tefted accounts from various parts of the kingdom feem to juftify 
you in your fufpicions, that at leaft many of the fwallow kind do 
not 
