NATURAL HISTORY. 
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dice being in the (izc, this weighing only 
twelve ounces, whereas the other weighs 
twenty-leven ounces. 
The WOODCOCK. 
HIS bird, which is fmaller than a par- 
tndge, is fourteen inches in length, twenty- 
fix inches broad, and about twelve ounces in 
weight. It has a ftraight bill, which is three 
inches long, the upper one falling a little 
over the under at the tip: it is of a dulky 
colour towards the end, and reddihi at the 
bafe; the forehead is alli-colour, and a black 
line extends from the bill to the eyes ; the 
head, neck, back, and coverts of the wings, 
are irregularly barred with red, black, grey, 
and alli-colour ; but, on the head, the black 
is moft predominant. 1 he eggs are long, 
of a pale red, with ipots and clouds of a 
deeper colom'. The llelh is reckoned a great 
delicacy. 
In the fummer, the inhabit the Alps of 
Norway, Sweden, and other northern parts 
of Europe ; but, when the troll commences, 
they retire to France, Germany, Italy, and 
'Great-Britain- 
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