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fiy oil %rith them, lie then hi4, 
|)hX tm remaining bird, aim?i 
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and to see 
and si 5 '-v hiM ■■ i 
in her 
I'he rr-->i;c ■ . cv;t; •' ■^•r i^iTsu rise' to much dss- ' 
-m the swKt?t’': ihe young between the 
tM4.kir^r M-a: irue» but ^4'^^ gm^ps them, with her toes, 
G fh< Fs;r^ been down as she liles of!t, 
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* , xA» cn^'ry ^s-owa well ascertained fact, though 
'^“54 who art on the sub|ect„ It is certain, that the 
fit c'.y n fiiig varies, a?id it Is chiefly done at dusk; or early 
A*'x..n, '•«'h€!U ih& light la ha.d, -accurate observations are diflicuit. The 
vhai.ce ol observing ix when. the bird is disturbed with her brood 
s« tm dt'.yrime, but possibly on such occasions of buriy* abnormal 
.iTieibods- are resorted w. That they will sometimes carry large 
young birds able to ily has been ascertained by Mr W, H. St Quintin 
on. t^v:> ■oGcat'dons, When shooting a rather ^^pen birchwood at Inyer- 
shin, OB Anguat 30, 1882, he ca.me across a late brood of woodcocks, and 
shot an.oid woodcock carrying a young, bird, and another o.f the yowag 
birds with his second barrel. He afterw'ards. shot the young bird which 
tlte olil oae had iarry.iug, and' which his retriever had tried, bur 
.failed, \4> c.iixcti. The. were hedged, but somewhat undersized, and he 
recollet^ts well seeing i.h-- voting, bird between the parent’s legs as he fired. 
b: is not k«<fwn icr uni -■■.‘■h ^ hether the woodcock nests twice in a season. 
M nui-f be. Tmii, uk but It in more likely that those with late 
Auv-iMfe. ?n!st Biiptombifef have lost their first set of egg# 
n?.:stod' a second ;x 
(Jenerd of the WOOdcock i$ 
referred to. During the 
u eo<f in the woods or on some 
where, il undisturbed, it re-^ 
v.rhr»ordinary partlailfy for certain 
woods, and siiaji others which suited to their needs. Why 
tills should be so it is impossible vo it m a w®!l "known fact that 
certain places are a sure And for •' •* iMr<j ate any in the neigh* 
bciurhood, ajid that ii; the. mciipmt x's;;' pmUtteh^x spot is killed, its 
place is nmtiy_ sure to. be flHed ahicmt. Asasnediately by another bird.' 
Mr Hijgh. Worm aid, who has had special opporamities of studying tht? 
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■yi’' 'y'Pei‘'Ae 
i.v» hikbitn, wFkA ‘is 
4 ap.it ...^ 4 „. ,x io some 4 “, - 
side mv^red with '^yn>y^- 
mains till d?isk. The' birds 
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