Philoela minor. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Singing. 1896. Our Lakeside Woodcock fairly outdid himself to-night. May 17. He began peeping at about 7.30 in the field below the road a- bout ten yards from the edge of the cover and not over 60 yards from the nest. I thought at first that he was going to sing here but after peeping at rather wide and irregular intervals for a few minutes he rose and flew to the top of the hill be- hind the barn (the old place), skimming low over the ground but rising four or five feet above the top spread strand of the barbed wire fence as if aware of its position and danger. Upon reaching the hill-top he began his song flights going up every minute or minute and a half for the next half hour but ceasing before it became quite dark. His mate probably laid her third egg to-day but we did not visit the nest to see.