Book Review

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This time I'll report on a handsome coffee-table volume on woodcock, a fascinating history of an English gunmaker and an authoritative work on rifles for dangerous game-books that provide enjoyable reading and are top-flight sources of information as well. The Woodcock: Artists' Impressions By Simon Gudgeon, et al. (Swan Hill Press; distributed by Stackpole Books, 800-732-3669, www.stackpolebooks.com; 2006) 147 pp. $49.95. The Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) has a barred head and intricately camouflaged plumage, as does the American woodcock (Scolopax minor), but the Eurasian species is half again as large as our woodcock and, at least in Britain, represents an even more compelling quarry.

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