59 
1876. 
Philohela niinor, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
!0ct.l7) 
Started only one in “Hall’s*, Concord,to-day. 
« 19, 
Pound one at Concord in some scrub oaks barely knee 
high. 
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Started one at Concord, 
“ 27 
Started one at Concord, 
Dec. 5. 
Hesbitt started one in Belmont. The last v/as seen 
at Concerd 8?.November 27. 
1879, 
Oct. 7. 
One v/hich I shot at Connord was still moulting about 
the head and throat. It v/'oighed seven and one quarter 
ounces and was very fat. The fat unlike that of most 
waders was of a lucious, molting qality like that of the 
Connecticut Warbler, 
1880. 
Oct. 11. 
Started four at Concord in the space of a fevr square 
rods. They wore in low seeond-grov^th oaks interspersed 
with a few birches. They were all fine, vigorous birds, 
rising with a clear, ringing whistle and taking long * 
flights. They probably came in last night as there were 
few signs among the leaves where they lay, I believe 
Woodcocks, like Snipe, often migrate in flocks of small 
parties. In no other v/ay can I explain the finding of 
somany^birds in so limited a space, while neighboring and 
equally favorable covers remiined unoccupied. 
• 12. 
On the ground whore I killed the Woodcock yesterday 
I could find none this morning. Bordering that covert 
hov/ever, is a boated tract with isolated clusters of 
sprouts and an occasional leafless dog vrood. Hero 
within the space of a few rods I flushed and killed four 
birds. They v/ere certainly not hero yesterday. Throe 
of the four vrero males, two of them young birds; the 
fourth \yas an adult female. 
^ 23. 
One at Concord; they are scarce this season. 
1881.• 
Oct. 27« 
1 
During the past three v/'oeks I have not found a 
single Woodcock at Concord; nevertheless some of the 
other sportsmen have shot a good many. One man is re- 
; ported to have killed forty-one in Haverhill in two days. 
