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WOODCOCK AND SNIPE'. 
Continued from page 813. 
but still he has his whistle with him then when 
in full motion. 
Some twenty years ago, while I was hake fish¬ 
ing during a foggy October night off Wood 
Island Light, in Saco Bay, a woodcock paid us 
a visit, alighting on the deck of our smack. He 
immediately took flight again, but flew around 
and among our rigging several times, as though 
loath to leave a place that afforded a chance to 
alight. The night was still, and we could follow 
his course plainly by his soft, low whistle. 
Many times wounded birds have come to hand 
that were not wing broken, and frequently have 
been held by the feet and allowed to beat their 
wings as in flight. On all such occasions the 
whistle was all right, and was in good condition 
so long as the wing beats lasted. The same 
birds have also been held firmly by the head 
and bill, and, like the other cases, so long as 
the wing beats were maintained vigorously his 
whistle was in the best of order. 
When rising in tall cover and in much haste, 
as is usually the case when alarmed, his wing 
beats are quick and powerful, and the whistle 
which we all love so well is clear and sharp. 
After gaining the top of the cover and good 
headway, it softens down to a much lower key 
and is heard best on still days or when a bird 
passes near by you. 
Did any hunter ever hear a cock whistle when 
the notes were not in perfect time with his beat¬ 
ing wings? 
On one occasion, while hunting with a young 
friend, at the signal for a point, I went oyer 
to where he stood, and he pointed at a cock 
only a -few feet before the dog’s nose. He 
wished to catch him alive, and while I stood 
guard in case of a flush, he laid down his gun 
and dropping on his knees plunged suddenly 
forward and covered with both hands the much 
surprised woodcock. The many experiments 
that were tried, all of which bore a large crop 
of whistling in the best of condition, and all 
coming from his beating wings, would have 
satisfied any one. I could give many more cases, 
but I think that I have stolen from the leaves 
of my memory sufficient to account for the faith 
that is in me as to how and when the wood¬ 
cock makes the air vibrate with the many varied 
notes of his tremulous whistle. 
Snipe “Drumming.*' 
One of the most interesting problems of 
natural history is that which concerns the 
“drumming” or “bleating” of the snipe—two 
somewhat dissimilar terms that appear to be 
applied to the same operation. Those who have 
studied the ways of snipe in their breeding 
haunts will be quite familiar with the strange 
noise referred to, and the opinions of a num¬ 
ber of observers as to its cause would be worth 
collecting. It is noticeable that the sound in 
question is produced only when the bird is in 
the air, and then only during the spring and 
summer, when the bird is engaged in nesting 
or rearing its brood. One of the best months, 
according to the British Sportsman, for observ¬ 
ing this curious behavior on the part of snipe 
is July, and a correspondent who has lately 
been studying the subject tells us that he be¬ 
lieves the “bleating” is caused by the winds or 
tail—perhaps both. The snipe, on the occasions 
observed, which covered a period of ten days, 
