Phil oh In. minor 
1(372. 
Aim; 
1873 
All- 
14, 
Sopt.14, 
Julv 25. 
Aug. 4. 
Sept. 1 
1076, 
Juno 2. 
Haitio (Lako ibagog 1 . 
Among tho thickly grovin young firs and spruces t/ 
behind th ill I started a f or® lo vith a brood of four 
young. Which wore so wo 11 grown that they looked scarce¬ 
ly snailor than tho old bird and flow equally well, 
Tho ice is said to have gono out of the T-ako only three 
weeks before this date. 
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At tho lov/or settle r.t on the ' e gall o’,/ay I was 
told !;ha. ! thin secies od lately appeared and was get¬ 
ting ab .ndant. 
On tho muddy bank of Cambridge hivor adopt two miles 
above tho dan, I cane upon a Woodcock vine' was feeding 
on tho edge of 'the water. Still hi then up I found 
tho mud, both on tho bank arid among the alders, bored in 
• fany places by these birds. 
Again to-; ay, found ni.;n orous borings along the 
heavily -nborod banks of Cambridge Ivor above the dam. 
five more start id among the dense young firs and 
spruces boh? nd the : 11. 
■o- five ' ' : n - u lo behind tho house. 
Boa- all the cover con Tipton hill wl thout starting 
* bird. he se©soi is rsry wet, and it is )rob hiy 
•hat hey leave taken o-'he forest. 
.Started five and killed four in- tho cover by the 
ake on the Sar 1 t rm, h, c r t 1 » irhi ■ tied, 
tho ;rs rising with;.oihoavyr f Otekto*. pnd going off si- 
lently. They war . jarly irou h tho oult however. 
Early in the evening hoard one calling j.n tho 
birches on are edge of Abbott’s pas-turo. Upon comparing 
his cry /i th t eat o [' tho Highthuvks circling over head at 
the tine I found it to be very si:ular but less loud and 
moi-o vibrating. The Woods©ek finally rose whistling 
sharply ai d t eei ded i; on nay ; ; • to v > -oi- ht of 
at least six hundred foot, then sang exactly s . jted he 
April 1874, but more feebly. He afterwards uttered his 
cry for a long time but did not rise again. 
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