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WOODCOCK. 
mandible ; legs and feet slender ; tarsi of mode- 
rate length ; tibi;c only for a short space naked, 
or altogether clothed with feathers ; wings mo- 
derate, tips of the quills somewhat rounded, 
hut the first or second longest. 
Types, Scolopox rusticola, gallinnago, Salinii, &c. 
Cosmopolite. 
Note. — Habits of several, to a certain extent, 
sylvan, all migratory, or partially so. Squat 
on the approach of danger. Breeding and 
winter plumage similar. 
THE WOODCOCK. 
Scolopox rusticola , Linnjeus. 
PLATE XI. 
Scolopax rusticola, Linn , Becasso ordinaire, Temm . — 
The Woodcock of British authors. 
The Woodcock is the largest species in the genus, 
and, from the oldest records, has been in high favour 
for the table, and since the time that shooting fly- 
ing has been practised, has been much sought after 
by the sportsman, to whom it makes an agreeable 
