. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ^ J 68 BRITISH BIRDS,. THE WOODCOCK. {^Scolopax Rujlicohi Lin. — La Becajfcy BufF.) The Woodcock measures fourteen inches in length,and twenty-six in breadth, and generally weighs abouttwelve ounces. The shape of the head is remarkable,being rather triangular than round, with the eyes placednear the top, and the ears very forward, nearly on a line\vith the corners of the mouth. The upper mandible,which measures about three inches, is furrowed nearly itswhole length, and at the tip it projects beyond and hangsover the under one, endi
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ^ J 68 BRITISH BIRDS,. THE WOODCOCK. {^Scolopax Rujlicohi Lin. — La Becajfcy BufF.) The Woodcock measures fourteen inches in length,and twenty-six in breadth, and generally weighs abouttwelve ounces. The shape of the head is remarkable,being rather triangular than round, with the eyes placednear the top, and the ears very forward, nearly on a line\vith the corners of the mouth. The upper mandible,which measures about three inches, is furrowed nearly itswhole length, and at the tip it projects beyond and hangsover the under one, ending in a kind of knob, which, likethose of others of the same genus, is susceptible of thefinest feeling, and calculated by that means, aided, per-haps, by an acute smell, to find the small worms in thesoft moist grounds, from whence it extracts them with itssharp-pointed tongue. With the bill it also turns over BRITISH BIRDS. e«X and tosses the fallen leaves in search of the insedls whichshelter underneath. The crown of the head is of an ashcolour; the nape and back part of it
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