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migration of the woodcock, as of the fhSpe Wii-, 
fughby alfo fays, that Mr. Jeffiop law young wood- 
cocks iold at Sheffield (which rather implies a cer- 
tain number being brought to market), and that 
others had obferved the fame elfewhere *j-. 
We are, indeed, informed by Scopoli :f, that they 
breed conftantly in Carniola, which is conliderably 
to the fouthvva'rd cf any part of England : our 
country is therefore certainly not too hot for them. 
Woodcocks appear and difappear almoft exactly 
about the fame time in every part of Europe, and 
perhaps Africa || : heat and cold, therefore, leem 
not to have any operation whatfoever with regard to 
the fuppofed migration of this bird. 
But it may be faid, what hgnilies proving the- 
probability of woodcocks breeding in England, if it 
is not a known fad that they do lb ? 
To this it fhould feem there are feveral anfwers, as 
iris equally incumbent upon thofe who contend lor 
migration, to ffiew that thefe birds were ever feen on 
fuch paffage. 
Another anfwer is, afk ninety-nine people out of 
a hundred, whether fnipes ever make a nelV in Eng- 
glandj and they will immediately fay, that they 
do not ; fo little are fads or observations of this fort - 
attended to. 
But I fhali now endeavour to give fome other rea- 
ions why woodcocks may not only continue with us 
* Phi!.. 7 'ranf. abr, Vo!. II. p. 889. 
f B. iii. e. 1. 
X . Ornith. Leipfig, 1769. 
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