Philohela minor 
Carlisle, Mass. Song. 
1879. is again resumed and continued until broad daylight. 
April 8. 7/e heard another Woodcock rise from the run just before 
(Uo.4). our songster took his first upward flight. It was probably 
the female. And later while the male was bleating in the 
open field within a few yards of us a Woodcock passed swiftly 
within a few feet of my friend's head. 
The course described by the bird while in the air v/ould 
cover several acres. He seems fairly to exult in his free 
upward wanderings and his descent is one joyous tumult of 
ecstatic melody. He looks like a small black ball in the 
dusky sky. 
