
Record of breeding woodcock in yostecentral ioueatanae was obtained 
in the spring of 1952 also. On April 8, 1952, 12 wodcock were flushed 
ahead of the dogs along Sieper Oreek near Flatwoods in Rapides Parish. 
Three of the birds were feigning females. Either by actual handling 
or close observation, 9 of the birds were judged to be young of the 
year. The young were about lh weeks old; only a trace of downy feathers 
remained about the head. : 
. Mississippi.--On March 6, 1950 Goodrum flushed an adult female from 
the base of a whitebay shrub on the Leaf River Refuge, DeSoto National 
Forest, Mississippi. Three downy young were found near the white bay. 
Again on April 7, 1952, Goodrum saw a feigning female two miles west 
of the 1950 observation. 

Georgia.--In March 1952, three miles west of Marietta, Georgia, 
L. E. Foote observed one active singing ground. Again on March 21, 
1953 he located three singing grounds in the same location. On June 
15, 1952, he saw one adult bird in this area, 
On February 28, 1953, Edward E. Hueske saw a female woodcock 
sitting on three eggs, two miles west of Smyrna, Georgia in Cobb 
County along Nicka Jack Creek. 
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