Philo h ela minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 1896. Watrous and I spent the better part of the forenoon in May 14. the woods and thickets at the east end of the Brown clearing. Our especial object was to find the Woodcock's nest which I was lucky enough to stumble on after about an hour's search. It was near the lower end of the run about midway between the cart path and the road on a low mound covered with blueberry bushes and dead brakes, surrounded by scattered willows, spruces and balsams but in an opening fully exposed to the sun. I had stopped for a moment to look around when the bird rose within about 3 ft. of me and I at once saw the nest and e ggs . The latter were quite fresh but two of them had cracks radiating from a common centre and making us think at first that the eggs were about to hatch. I took five photographs of this nest.