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again visited the place to see if I could discover them, being careful to take Bob with me. In about ten minutes we found them, and photograph No. 6’Was taken as hastily as possible. A minute afterward they had all slipped away. '

A week later, June 4, I worked the place over carefully with Bob, but failed to ﬁnd a single Woodcock. Twenty rods away, however. we ﬂushed

T A K a N ABOUT THIRTY SECONDS LATER THAN THE Lowell ricTuREt

The ccntcr hitd skulktd away hall a minute later. and was almost immcdialcly [allowed by HI: uthm.

No It. YOUNG wooucock. NINE oars on)

Showng the pasltmn m whlth It“ by [ht motnct when ﬂushed, ThEy held this position about lhret minutes

an old bird from a small clump of berry bushes, but could not ﬁnd any others either young or old.

The ﬁrst time I ﬂushed the old bird from the young, after they left the nest, she ﬂew only about a rod, fell all in a heap as if wounded, and made a noise with her wings like a RuHed Grouse when commencing to drum, at the same time uttering a sound expressed best by the word ‘Iwut.’ This