MAINE, (L. Umbagog) 1876. (June 5) Song of the woodcock Buto Virginianus its roosting by day Buddy of Chordula less Buto Penn. and two fourscore am. The first I have noted. I heard a Graya singing this morning. The usual hoot of Bubo is hoo hoo-hoo, hooooo, hoo Stone went over to B. Brook with Godwin to visit some bear traps and came in with a fin & Chordula which he started off a high egg. He did not see the 2. The locality was a little clearing grown up with low bushes. The egg lay on a mound which was nearly surrounded by water. After supper this evening I came up behind Abbotts to hear the woodcock sing. He commenced his vibratory notes as usual and soon after went up into the sky when for the first time I saw him through the whole performance. After he commenced to descend he Gave a number of wing beats in succession with pauses taken as noted in 1874. When down down and commencing his "song" he commenced darting zig zag with arrows like speed following lines something like 2 and at each swoop came the liquid gush of song. In this way he descended till nearly to the ground when with wet wings he pitched like lightning to the west when he had risen. I must confess that which burst of melody so exactly correspond with each swoop of the zig zag that it really seemed as if his wings produced the sound but it is hardly to be believed that such notes could be produced in that way. At 100 yds distance nothing could be heard beyond the whistling of his wings. I think the & Chordula shoots