Phllohela minor. 
Lake Umbagog. 
1887, 
September 26. 
Woodcock at Sluice . 
While the guides were breaking camp I went in search of 
the Woodcock that has whistled past our camp these two nights past. 
He came from the ridge to the north and I found his signs there 
among some brakes, but failed to flush him. On the knoll just 
south of the darn, however, "Don” pointed two birds in the open 
just outside a thicket of alders. I missed a perfectly fair shot 
at the first but afterwards killed him by a snap shot in the al¬ 
ders. The other I killed at the first rise. There was not the 
•smallest bush within thirty yards of where these birds lay. 
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1889, 
September 23. 
(Alva Goolidge) . . tells me that he has seen Woodcock 
on the Cupsuptic carry and at Lake Parmacheenee. 
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1390 , ' Lake Umbagog. 
September 25. 
On the drive home (from Pearley White's ) in the twi- yf 
light we overtook Charlie Brown who a moment afterward turned into 
a cart path which leads to his house and immediately shouted to us, 
''Come and kill a Woodcock." I took my gun and hurried to the spot 
where I found a large Woodcock sitting on the edge of mud puddle. 
I flushed it 'three times in succession but owing to the dim light 
was unable to see it after it left the ground. It returned to the 
puddle each time in less than half a minute, dropping on the edge 
of the water as lightly as a big ball of thistle down. Once it 
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