. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 134 NEBTS AND EGGS OF 228. AMERICAN WOODCOCK. PMlohela minor (Gmel.) Geog. Dist.—East- ern Province of North America, north to British Province, west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, etc. Breeds throughout its range. This noted game bird frequents the bogs, swampy fields and wet woodlands of Eastern United States and Canada, and breeds throughout its range. The nests are mere depressions in some dry spot in swampy land, generally under the cover of a clump of briers or other wild shrubbery, often in more open places. The eggs of the Woodcock
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 134 NEBTS AND EGGS OF 228. AMERICAN WOODCOCK. PMlohela minor (Gmel.) Geog. Dist.—East- ern Province of North America, north to British Province, west to Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, etc. Breeds throughout its range. This noted game bird frequents the bogs, swampy fields and wet woodlands of Eastern United States and Canada, and breeds throughout its range. The nests are mere depressions in some dry spot in swampy land, generally under the cover of a clump of briers or other wild shrubbery, often in more open places. The eggs of the Woodcock are laid early in April, and in some localities not until some time in May. In Ohio, I have found eggs as early as April 3, and young have been seen as early as April 9, near Cleveland, Ohio. There are records of eggs of this species averaging in size , but I have never seen any so large, although they exhibit consider- able variations. These sizes doubtless refer to the eggs of the European species. Although known to the majority of people by its name of Woodcock, it nevertheless has many aliases in different parts of the country which it visits, and is called Big. 228. Ambsican Woodcock Mud, Big-headed, Blind and Wood and Whistling Snipe; * * * Timber Doodle, Bog Bird, Night Partridge, Night Peck, Hookum Pake, Pewee, Labrador Twister, Whistler, and probably many others. Being a migrating species, the length of its stay in any particular locality depends greatly upon the weather, for though per- haps very abundant on one day, yet if during the night from sudden cold their feed- ing ground becomes frozen, by the next morning not a bird would be found, all having departed to a milder clime. It migrates always at night, when indeed, it is most active, for it is a nocturnal bird, its sight being much better after the sun has departed than when the eye is exposed to the full light of day.* As a taxidermist I have prepared more specimens of this species killed within the
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