. Cassell's natural history . e south-western coasts of England and Ireland, accounts for the abundance of them inDevonshire and Cornwall, and the countries thus situated, and the still greater numbersfound in the southern and western districts of Ireland, compared with the other parts ofthe kingdom. It is thus, also, that woodcocks are generally first observed in these positions, andsometimes long before they are seen in England or Scotland. The succeeding flights,which continue at intervals during October and the two following months, becoming eachmore limited in extent, the whole country gr
. Cassell's natural history . e south-western coasts of England and Ireland, accounts for the abundance of them inDevonshire and Cornwall, and the countries thus situated, and the still greater numbersfound in the southern and western districts of Ireland, compared with the other parts ofthe kingdom. It is thus, also, that woodcocks are generally first observed in these positions, andsometimes long before they are seen in England or Scotland. The succeeding flights,which continue at intervals during October and the two following months, becoming eachmore limited in extent, the whole country gradually receives its accession of wintervisitants, those that take up their haunt in the northern counties of England and Scotlandseldom arriving before the middle of November, or the beginning of December ; theearlier flights, when they do ulight in the country, merely remaining for a day, and thenpassing on to the soutliward From this latter circumstance, the search for woodcocks Stoldjiiix liualicolti. W 1^ It ^^\s^imAJSim. •■v^.-, - * 1 .r^ v.;m-i,.
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