64 
1869. 
July & 
Aug. 
1874. 
Jan. 24, 
Philohela minor. 
I saw none here but v^as told by an old trapper, that 
he once started one in the vicinity from the odge of an 
alder swamp (Glen House, N.H. ). 
Captain Baxter tells me that he started one late in 
December at Marston*s Mills. He believes that they 
winter there. 
Mar. 1, Arthur Smith tells me that ho killed a Woodcock 
about the middle of January last in Brookline. Started 
it from a spring- hole in an open field where the snovr 
was about a foot deep. It was emaciated and apparently 
sick. 
NoVw lO'. Melvin started one to-day at Concord, and six on the 
8th. 
1875. 
Oct, 21. We found their borings in several cornfields (Mar- 
ston’s Mills,Mass,), 
