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are found not only in the digestive tract but in the abdominal 

 cavity and the eye sockets. The flavor is rather fishy. 



Philohela minor. Woodcock. 



August 16, 1898, Aiken flushed a bird in oak brush on the 

 Starr Ranch on the slope of Cheyenne Mountain which he be- 

 lieves to have been a Woodcock. He was also informed that 

 two men hunting on Rock Creek killed two Woodcock. The 

 Woodcock is known to occur rarely in the northern part of the 

 State. Cooke mentions five records from the neighborhood 

 of Denver. 



Edward H. Eyre says that while trout fishing in Manitou 

 Park about September first some years ago he plainly saw a pair 

 of Woodcock on the ground among willows bordering the 

 stream. This was about 30 miles west of Colorado Springs in 

 Teller County. 



Gallinago delicata. Wilson's Snipe. Jack Snipe. 



Common migrant and winter resident. 



Wilson's Snipe is known to breed in favored localities 

 throughout the State on the plains and up to 9,500 feet in the 

 mountains, but there are no very suitable breeding grounds for 

 it in El Paso County. They begin to make their appearance the 

 last of August or first of September at the first autumn storm 

 and become plentiful in October. Many go further south by 

 the first of November but a great many remain through the 

 most severe winters, some until the first of May. 



Fountain Creek rarely freezes over entirely below its exit 

 from the mountains, and along its banks there are many 

 places where water that runs through the sand comes to the 

 surface and forms springy holes and marshy meadows which 

 are warmer than surface water. These become the winter 

 feeding grounds for the Snipe and one or a pair often content 

 themselves with a very small area of muck. But at times of 

 severe cold many of the smaller holes freeze and then the 

 Snipe concentrate at places where a larger flow of water keeps 



