Philohela minor. 
Bethel, Maine. 
1904 
October 18 
At evening as twilight was falling Dr.Gehring heard 
Woodcock rising and flying from place to place in the birch woods 
below the house. One of them alighted in the opening in front of 
the Shack and ran and flitted from place to place along the margin 
of the little pond. Dr.G. saw it repeatedly jerk up and spread 
its tail while thus moving about. Presently another bird came 
flying to the pond and the first removed to the lower spring where 
it uttered the paap call a number of times. The second bird was 
seen to answer this call once. It behaved much like the first but 
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x did not jerk up nor spread its tail while Dr.G. was watching it. 
He thinks he heard at least five or six different birds rise from 
this cover to-night. (I heard one there the following evening). 
