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BRITISH BIRDS, 
WOODCOCK. 
(Scolo^ax Rujlicolay Lin . — La Becajfe, Buff.) 
The Woodcock meafures fourteen inches in 
length, and twenty-fix in breadth, and generally 
weighs about twelve ounces. The fliape of the 
head is remarkable, being rather triangular than 
round, with the eyes placed near the top, and 
the ears very forward, nearly on a line with the 
corners of the mouth. The upper mandible, 
which meafures about three inches, is furrowed 
nearly its whole length, and at the tip, it pro- 
jedls beyond, and hangs over the under one, 
ending in a kind of knob, which, like thofe of 
Others of the fame genus, is fufceptible of the 
