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1879. COUES, E. Letters on Oiuitbology. No. 29. — The Great Marbled Godwit. 

 Limosa Fedoa. < The Chicago Field, July 19, 1879. 

 From "Birds of the Northwest." 

 1879. Deane, E. AdditioTial Cap< ures of tlie Curlew Sandpiper [Tringa subarquata] 

 iu New England. < Bull. mitt. Ornith. Club, iv, No. 2, Apr., 1879, p. 124. 

 AcMing two to tlio thrc(> i)revi()ii8ly recorflcd. 

 1879. DwiGiiT, .T.,.Jk. The Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalaraa hiiiiautopus) on the New 



Jersey Coast. < Bull. Xutt. Ornith. Club, iv, No. 1, Jan., 1879, p. 63. 

 1879. Editorial. [F. Satterthwaitk. ] A Plea for Woodcock [Philohela minor]. 

 <; Fm-est and Stream, xiii, Aug. 14, 1879, p. 550. 

 Against the shooting of this species during the summer months. 

 1879. Ellzky, M. G., and Squire, G. R. Do Woodcock [Philohela minor] Breed Twice 

 a Year? <^ Forest and Stream, xii, July 10, 1879, p. 444. 



Letters confirming the position taken by Geo. Bird Grinnell, tliat "Woodcock do usually, in 

 the Middle States, i-eai- two broods each season. • 

 1879. [Grinnell, G. B.] Woodcock [Philohela minor] Breed Twice. <C. Forest and 

 Stream, xii, May 1, 1879, p. 2.50. 



Defence of statement that Woodcock usually rear two brood.s in a season, with some of the 

 ol)seivations on which this assertion is based. 

 1879. [Harting, J. E.] On some little-known Habits of the Woodcock [Scolopax 

 rusticolaj. <^ Zoologist, 3d ser. , iii, Nov. , 1879, i)p. 433-440, pi. iii. 



With special reference to the transportation of the young by the parent. The plate fig- 

 ures the parent flying with the young in her feet, away from the body, as a hawk would 

 carry its prey. The text bears this out, but other passages of the same article speak of the 

 young being pressed to the parent's body, clasped between her legs. See 1874, "A. "W." 



1879. J. C. H. Breeding of Woodcock [Philohela minor]. <^Forest and Stream, xii, 



May 22, 1879, p. 307. 

 Notice of the killing, on the wing, of four young woodcock, Mar. 31, 1878, at Fayetteville, 



N. C. (By typographical error, as noticed in the next issue of Forest and Stream, the note 



above given was dated Fayetteville, N. T. ) 

 1879. ''Portsa." Are Woodcock [Phihdicla mimn-] Nocturnal? <^ Forest and Stream, 



xi, Jan. 23, 1879, p. 502. 

 1879. Samuels, E. A. Wilson's Snipe. G'allinago Wilsonii — (Bonaparte.) < Toiom 



and Country (monthly newspaper of Boston, Mass. ), i. No. 4, A\)t. , 1879, cut. 

 An extended notice of the habits of this species, with sporting anecdote. Being No. 3 of a 



series of papers entitled "Our Game Birds."' 

 1879. Samuels, E. A. The Woodcock. Philohela minor. <[ Town and Countri/ 



(monthly newspaper of Boston, Mass.), i. No. 5, May, 1879, cut. 

 Popular biographical sketch. 

 1879. S[terling], J. W. The Second Brood of Woodcock [Philohela minor]. <^For- 



est and Stream, xiii, Oct. 2, 1879, p. 684. 

 1879. Young, C.H. More White Woodcock [Philohela minor]. <l Forest and Stream, 



Apr. 10, 1879, p. 185. 



Note. 

 In Ibis, Oct., 1879, p. 453, in an article not citable imder Scolopacidce, as it refers to various 

 other birds, H. T. "Wharton has shown th.at the proper specific name of the European Wood- 

 cock is rusticida, not rusticola, though the latter is almost invariably used. Though aware 

 of this before these pages were printed, I preferred to use the latter in my brackets, aa being 

 that which the authors themselves of the various papers did or would employ. 



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