Birds of Upper St, John. 
Batcheidar. 
9y Philohela minor ( Gtn.) Gray. Woodcock. — One seen on Little 
River Flats near Grand Falls. At Fort Fairfield we saw a specimen in 
the collection of Mr. Frank P. Orcutt, who considered it rare in that 
neighborhood. l 'A few breed in the vicinity” of Houlton. 
Bull ar.O.Q, 7, July, 1882, p. 151 
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/ Several instances liave been recorded of 
Woodcock having been shot in the month 
of December, but they have invariably 
proved to be wounded birds, which have 
been unable to migrate to their southern 
feeding grounds, and which by the succour 
of an open Spring have been enabled to 
eke out an existence till this late season of GH 
the year. — Harold GilbertQ’& O. Vll. Jun, 1882. p. 
I can remember when Wilson’s Snipe came here in im- 
mense flocks, but about a quarter of a century ago they began to 
lessen in numbers, and now they are far from common. Wood- 
cock on the other hand, are more plentiful now than they were 
fifty years ago. When Pictou County was first settled none were 
found here, and in 1830 the first specimen was placed in the mu- 
seum of the Academy. From this date they increased rapidly until 
about fifteen years ago, when their numbers appeared to decrease, 
from what cause I can only conjecture. Almost every season a 
few of this species are met with here in March, when the earth’s 
surface is frozen and covered deep with snow, excepting in a few / 
favored spots, ^ frf -< 
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Mr. Harry Austin’s record of Woodcock shooting 
on Grant Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia ; 
August 1, 1884, 16 Woodcock. 
“ 1, 1885, 14 “ 1 Snipe. 
“ 1, 1886, 21 “ 3 “ 
“ 1, 1887, 10 
August 30, 1886 Col. Clark and Mr. Austin, at the 
same place, shot 33 Cock and 11 Partridge. 
O.&Q. XJll.Nov. 1088 
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He also received from a friend in Kentville, a 
Woodcock. No use, Canada must be annexed. 
O.&O. XIY.jk*. 1889 p. !H 
TwiEfct, funaer Birds of 
Prince Bdward Island, 
' Philohela minor. American Woodcock. - The sportsmen are ac- 
quainted with this bird but it is considered rare. I saw a stuffed specimen 
and well recollect the one I shot at I don’t know how many times when I 
visited Hunter River in 1876. The country about there is better ^suited to 
it than much of the ground visited this time. lhe partiality of th 
Woodcock for clean alder swamps still obtains on Prince Edwa.d Island. 
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