. The Canadian field-naturalist. 12 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XLIX back to nest in the forests of the centre of ; Newton, in his Dictionary of Birds, published in 1896, says in a footnote on page .1045:- "The pair of muscles said by Loche ( Scient. de I'AIgcrie, II, p. 293) to exist in the maxilla, and presumably to direct the movement of the bill, do not seem to have as yet been precisely desc ibed". The same year that Loche's work appeared, , 1867, saw, also the production of Hoffmann's" Pirip. monograph on the Woodcock, with three figures of th
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 12 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XLIX back to nest in the forests of the centre of ; Newton, in his Dictionary of Birds, published in 1896, says in a footnote on page .1045:- "The pair of muscles said by Loche ( Scient. de I'AIgcrie, II, p. 293) to exist in the maxilla, and presumably to direct the movement of the bill, do not seem to have as yet been precisely desc ibed". The same year that Loche's work appeared, , 1867, saw, also the production of Hoffmann's" Pirip. monograph on the Woodcock, with three figures of the bird's head and bill, which are here reproduced, together with a description translated from the German. Newton, in reviewing this work in the Ibis of 1868—of which he was then Editor—says in part:—"Dr. Julius Hoffmann has published a very good monograph on the Woodcock. He first gives a long and detailed description of the bird, particularly directing attention to a curious peculiarity of its bill the upper mandible of which is capable of voluntary upward movement —a property that seems to have hitherto almost entirely escaped notice, but now sufficiently well established and illustrated by a woodcut. Finally the American species (Scotopax minor) is con- sidered, much in the same manner, but at less length than the European, and chiefly from Audubon's writings; and thus ends this verv '5 Die Wal''schnepfe, Ein monoyrarhischer Beitrag zur Jagd- ioge, by Dr. Julius Hoflfmann, I86T. good monograph on the natural history of "Tirn- ber-doodles". Quoting from the German as nearly as possible, Hoffmann says:—"The pecu- liar mechanism of the upper beak is so interesting and plays such an important role in the nutrition of the woodcock that we will not refrain from dealing more minutely with this object. The woodcock is able to bend the front third part of the upper beak upwards without at the same time opening the beak, , without bending the lower b
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