Song of the woodcock.
MAINE, (L. Umbagog. [Umbagog Lake, Maine])
Bubo Virginianus its hooting by day
Breeding of Chordeiles 1 egg.
1876.
(June 5 [June 5, 1876] Buteo Penn. [Buteo pennsylvanicus] and two Curvirostra Am. [Curvirostra americana]
the first i have noticed. I heard a Pyranga
singing this morning. The usual note of
Bubo is hoo, hoo-hoo, hoooooo, hoo Stone 
went over to B. brook with Godwin to visit
some bear traps and came in with
a fine [male] Chordeiles which he started
off a single egg. He did not see the [female].
The locality was a little clearing grown 
up with low bushes. The egg lay on a
mound which was nearly surrounded
by water. After supper this evening I
went up behind Abbotts to hear the woodcock
sing. He commenced his vibrating note
as usual and soon after went up into
the sky when for the first time I saw
him through the whole performance.
After he commenced to descend he
gave a number of wing beats in succession
with pauses between as noted in 1874. When
lower down and commencing his "song" he
commenced darting zig zag with arrow
like speed following lines something like
[illustration] and at each swoop came the liquid
gush of song. In this was he descended till
nearly to the ground when with set wings
he pitched like lightning to the spot
where he had risen. I must confess that
rich burst of melody so exactly corresponded 
with each swoop of the zig zag that it
really seemed as if his wings produced 
the sound but it is hardly to be
believed that such notes could be produced
in that way. At 100 yds. [yards] distance nothing
could be heard beyond the whistling of his
wings, I think. The [male] Chordeiles swoops