Based on the foregoing studies and the accumulated informtion of 
three springs of intensive trapping and banding, nine specific recan- 
mendations have been made for refining census methods. These include 
a standard number of runs, a standard time length for duration: of a 
run, a 1/2 mile interval between stops, a standard stopping time for 
each station, when to start the count, and what part of the courtship 
performance is to be recorded as one bird. 
Very strong circumstantial evidence that a female woodcock 
occasionally "peents" was recorded by one observer, 
Miscellaneous notes on predation, nesting and cover usage were 
collected. . 
Assistants and cooperators in the Massachusetts study included 
R. Wood, E. Howard, Gardiner Hobart, Gordon Hobart, James Taylor, J. 
McDonough, T. H. Ripley, W. A. Fitzpatrick, A. Pelletier, Sargent 
Russell, Ww. Gunn, R. Norris, L. M. Bartlett, W. Nutting and Leslie 
Campbell. 
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