Philohela minor 
Peterborough, hew Hampshire. 
1899. 
One seen at Temple on the evening of August 20th flying 
July 
& 
August . 
from a wooded hillside to a brook meadow. Abbott Thayer tells 
me that Woodcock bred abundantly this year in the woods near 
his house at Dublin and that early in July his son Gerald saw 
one alight twice on the topmost twigs or sprays of some white 
pines which were thirty or forty feet high. This happened 
during the evening twilight but Gerald saw his bird distinctly 
against the sky and is positive that it was a Woodcock. 
Concord, 
Md s s # 
1899. 
Looking for the Woodcock in the Barrett run I found him 
April 7. 
within twenty yards of where he lay on the 5th - the same 
small male bird evidently. I wonder if he will remain and 
breed here. (1 afterwards learned that during the past week 
a Woodcock was heard singing several nights in succession o^er 
the brook meadow w. of the Barrett house by both Geo. Holden 
and Henry Lawrence. ) 
