Philohela minor . 
Lake Urabagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 
1896. Last night we heard a Woodcock peeping and singing (for 
.May 16. the first time) on the knoll S.E. of-the house. We searched 
for the nest this P.M. following the edge of the woods from 
the hilltop down. About 50 yards below the road Watrous 
flushed a bird among dense spruces. 30 yards further down on 
the edge of the little fern-grown opening within 20 yards of 
the Lake - the opening where I have shot so many Woodcock in 
Septembers past - I found the nest. It was at the foot of a 
little balsam (2 ft. high) on a mound covered with dry brakes 
and so conspicuously placed that I saw the two eggs 15 yards 
away, for the bird was not sitting. This nest was within 20 
yds. of one that I found in 1SS0. 
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