WOANDSYU

a newly discovered food-plant, native to tropieal Africa. It resembles the peanut in its manner of growth and furnishes a white flour, which, after cooking, has a pleasing chestnut flavor, and is of exceptionally high and well-balanced food value. The kernel is egg-shaped, and dark red, with black stripes and a white hilum, WOODCOCK (see the color-page facing 242), one of the most popular of the smaller gaime-birds, found in many parts of eastern North America, from Canada to the Gulf. The female averages a little le than twelve inches in length and about a half-pound or so in weight; the male is somewhat smaller. Both are distinguished: hy long, straight, furrowed bills (happily designed for boring for their favorite diet of earth-worms), large dark eyes, short thick necks, compact rounded hodies, and short wings and legs. Their upper plumage isa varied grey, buff, brown, and black; their under-parts are reddish-brown. Both have dark flesh, rich in flavor. The Old World woodcock is a similar bird of larger size.