AMERICAN WOODCOCK. 101 
Male woodcock is ten inches and a half long^, 
sixteen inches in extent; bill, a brownish flesh 
_ black towards the tip, the npper mandible 
an ®hsht knob, that projects about one-tenth of 
beyond the lower,# each grooved, and, in length, 
Pjip®'''bat more than two inches and a half ; forehead, 
side*^'^**^ the eye, and ^^•hole lower parts, reddish tawny ; 
aiuM niick, inclining to ash ; between the eye 
the f ^ alight streak of dark brown ; crown, from 
thr ***’^®Part of the eye bacltwards, black, crossed by 
Kin* Harrow hands of brownish white ; cheeks, marked 
Of tl black, variegated n ith light brown ; edges 
ha U * back, and of the scapulars, pale bluish white ; 
»ud scapulars, deep black, each feather tipt or 
Byj'lod with light brown and bright ferruginous, nith 
Herons fine zigziig' lines of black crossing the lighter 
•Ha*!-’ 'l^*'lla> pliii n dusky brown ; tail, black, each feather 
hr, along the outer edge with small s|)ots of pale 
abo''**’ ending in narrow tips, of a pale drab colour 
brioJt,*’ silvery white below ; lining of the wing, 
eye I'nst ; legs and feet, a pale reddish flesh colour ; 
in fl t'oi’y full and black, seated high and very far back 
six ‘®Hd ; weight, five ounces and a half, sometimes 
oxt ** ^®Male is twelve inches long, and eighteen in 
the*|''-^ ’ K'cighs eight ounces ; and differs also in having 
the 1 * “‘■‘iir three inches in length ; the black on 
the . ^ is not quite so intense ; and the sides under 
q.J'’il{fs are slightly barred with dusky, 
oov yonng woodcocks of a week or ten days old are 
•'iat'l''*i " down of a brownish white colour, and are 
'I'ith from the bill along the crown to the hind head, 
a broad stripe of deep brown ; another line of the 
^laeri (Arctic Zonlogy, p. 403,) in describing the 
fliae Woodcock, says, that the lower mandible is much shorter 
that tb* Hpper. From the appearance of his bgnre, it is evident 
hag I *" specimen from which that and his description were taken 
hroW aetu'ly half an inch from the lower mandible, pndnibly 
Hu by accident, Turton and others have repeated this 
