The hills abounded in rabbits and hares; in a larch-forest, since cut away, were woodcock.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
I give the incident for what it is worth as a possible suggestion as to the way in which young woodcock are carried to and fro; but I am quite sure that those that have come under my own observation were carried by an entirely different method.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
This confidence of his is well placed, for once I saw a man step over a brooding woodcock on her nest in the roots of an old stump without seeing her, and she never moved so much as the tip of her long bill as he passed.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long