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again visited the place to see if I could discover them, being careful to take 

 Bob with me. In about ten minutes we found them, and photograph No. 

 6'was taken as hastily as possible. A minute afterward they had all slipped 

 away. 



A week later, June 4, I worked the place over carefully with Bob, but 

 failed to find a single Woodcock. Twenty rods away, however, we flushed 



No. 7. 



TAKEN ABOUT 

 THIRTY SECONDS 

 LATER THAN THE 

 LOWER PICTURE. 



The center bird 

 skulked away half a 

 minute later, and was 

 almost immediately 

 followed by the others. 



No. 6. YOUNG WOODCOCK, NINE DAYS OLD 



Showing the position in which left by the mother when flushed. They held this 



position about three minutes 



an old bird from a small clump of berry bushes, but could not find any 

 others either young or old. 



The first time I flushed the old bird from the young, after they left the 

 nest, she flew only about a rod, fell all in a heap as if wounded, and made a 

 noise with her wings like a Rufifed Grouse when commencing to drum, at 

 the same time uttering a sound expressed best by the word ^ twut.' This 



