A Woodcock at Home 



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and smoked out some of the mosquitoes, listened to the cluck of the 

 mother and a little later discovered her coming back through the tangle, 

 never approaching near enough for a snap-shot, but all the while uttering 

 her calls. Presently I heard a very tiny, plaintive and long-drawn-out 

 e-e-p, and soon one of my 

 little ones had gone, and 

 in less than two minutes 

 all had disappeared. 



I tried every way after 

 that to get a photograph of 

 her and the young together, 

 but this I now believe was 



TWO HOURS 

 LATER THAN 

 THE LOWER 

 PICTURE 



No. 4. YOUNG WOODCOCK IN NEST. HATCHED PRECRDINC; M(,H I 



impossible, as she would not come nearer than ten feet of them, always 

 calling them to her, nor could I get nearer than that to them when all 

 were together. With reluctance I abandoned the attempt and left the 

 place, trusting that I might be able to get something at a future day. 



On Saturday, May 28, the young now being about nine days old, I 



