FROM 
Vr/A., 
Editor Forest and Stream : New York, Jan. 29, 1879. 
I read with great interest the letter of « Portsa » in „ * 
and haying once had a very similar experience with i f Dumber < 
add my testimony to his as regards both their « shrink' T ’ 1 Can 
ance at night. Two years ago I spent a week in and a K> e ar- 
Lake. N. Y„ and one evening, as we were It!?/ T Green ^°od 
the day’s shoot, my attention was called to a bird which mu "f™ ^ 
are, and alighted at a short distance, immediate^ ™ Past the 
peculiar cry, which, having heard it in ^ 
n,zed as that of a woodcock, it was a bright mofnligSht an? 08 " 
companion and myself, going out into an adiacent ’ my 
small undergrowth, were enabled to shoot three “ on IT™ Wltl1 
tors. Having never heard of such a thing being i]o» h« “ ma Tisi ‘ 
letter from “ Portsa ” met my eye I immediately re™ be . fore > wbe h the 
ence similar to my own, and write this, hoping 
take interest enough in the subject to give a littfe inform^? y may 
ing the nocturnal habits of SooLpax minor. inform ^°n concern- 
W. D. 
