Philo dela minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 1896. Last night we heard a Woodcock peeping and singing (for May 16. the first time) on the knoll S.E. of the house. We searched for the nest this P.M. following the edge of the woods from the hilltop down. About 50 yards below the road Watrous flushed a bird among dense spruces. 30 yards further down on the edge of the little fern-grown opening within 20 yards of the Lake - the opening where I have shot so many Woodcock in Septembers past - I found the nest. It was at the foot of a little balsam (2 ft. high) on a mound covered with dry brakes and so conspicuously placed that I saw the two eggs 15 yards away, for the bird was not sitting. This nest was within 20 yds. of one that I found in 1880.