WO F BIR DS. io. 4p 
long, and its dekceds is fo fudden, that it feems to 
fall like aftone. A few-moments after it reaches 
the ground it runs forward very fait, it ftops very 
- foon, raifes its head, and looks on. every fide to 
be certain that no danger is near, before it 
, plunges its bill into the earth. . | 
Though the Woodcock has large eyes, it is | 
probable that it may not fee very well but at'twi- 
light, for it flies the moft in the evening and at_ 
the dawn of the day. This inclination to fly at _ 
thofe feafons feems fo ftrong, that thofe which: 
have been confined, regularly gies a age 
every evening and morning. 
When the nights are dark, it is very orabable 
: that the Woodcocks are ftill, but when the moon 
ch a” on a a ail 
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marth frequented by Woodcocks, and waits for 
them there: foon after the fun i is fet, efpecially it 

- fhines they go about in fearch of food, 
> Snares are laid for them, either at night or in the: 
_ tVening; theyare taken different waysb y nets and by L 
i perce ‘Theyare fhot in marfhes, and near rivulets. 
- A net fometimes is ftretched between two large | 
trees, in the glades, and at the borders of woods, 
where they come or pafs upon the wing in the 
evening and morning. ‘They are alfo taken upon’ 
the marfhes at night. 
The fowler lies hid near the rivulet or the: 
there 
