Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 6: Containing Forty-Four Coloured Engravings IN Europe, the Woodcock retires into the wild districts of Norway, Lapland, and Sweden to build, also frequents Finland, Russia, and Silesia; in Switzerland, Germany, and France, it is less common' in Italy it is plentiful in Winter: it occurs throughout the whole of the more temperate parts of the continent in greater or less numbers. In Asia it appertains to Persia, India, and Japan. In Africa to Barbary and other parts, and in ...
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Excerpt from A History of British Birds, Vol. 6: Containing Forty-Four Coloured Engravings IN Europe, the Woodcock retires into the wild districts of Norway, Lapland, and Sweden to build, also frequents Finland, Russia, and Silesia; in Switzerland, Germany, and France, it is less common' in Italy it is plentiful in Winter: it occurs throughout the whole of the more temperate parts of the continent in greater or less numbers. In Asia it appertains to Persia, India, and Japan. In Africa to Barbary and other parts, and in Madeira is a perennial resident. In this country these birds were formerly much more abundant than they are now, and numbers used to be taken in springes, nets, and traps. The destruction of their eggs in Sweden, where they, as likewise the birds themselves, are in much request, may perhaps account for this, as well as possibly for the circumstance of their building so much more frequently with us than formerly, as presently adverted to, though their actual numbers are diminished. In Orkney and Shetland they occur on their way north and south. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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