Philo h ela minor. 1887, Lake Umbagog. September 26. Woodcock at Sluice. While the guides were breaking camp I went in search of the Woodcock that has whistled past our camp these two nights past. He came from the ridge to the north and I found his signs there among some brakes, but failed to flush him. On the knoll just south of the dam, however, "Don" pointed two birds in the open just outside a thicket of alders. I missed a perfectly fair shot at the first but afterwards killed him by a snap shot in the al- ders. The other I killed at the first rise. There was not the smallest bush within thirty yards of where these birds lay. 1889, September 23. (Alva Coolidge) . . tells me that he has seen Woodcock on the Cupsuptic carry and at Lake Parmacheenee. 1890, Lake Umbagog. September 25. On the drive home (from Pearley's White's ) in the twi- light we overtook Charlie Brown who a moment afterward turned into a cart path which leads to his house and immediately shouted to us, "Come and kill a Woodcock." I took my gun and hurried to the spot where I found a large Woodcock sitting on the edge of mud puddle. I flushed it three times in succession but owing to the dim light was unable to see it after it left the ground. It returned to the puddle each time in less than half a minute, dropping on the edge of the water as lightly as a big ball of thistle down. Once it