Philohela

Snowball confronts the wily and elusive woodcock (Philohela minor).

December 2005 2005

_Philohela quinquemaculata_; your duty now is to corroborate the almost miraculous discovery of Professor Bottomly, and to disinter for her the vast herd of frozen mammoths, pack and pickle them, and get them to the

Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899

Land was to be undertaken solely for the purpose of bringing back living specimens of the five-spotted Arctic woodcock -- _Philohela quinquemaculata_ -- in order to add to our onomatology and our glossary of onomatopoeia an ontogenesis of this important but hitherto unstudied sub-species.

Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899

If you elect to slaughter old _Philohela minor_ on the altar of Selfishness, then it will be in order for the millions of people who do not kill birds to say whether that proposal shall be consummated or not.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

THE WOODCOCK _ (Philohela minor) _, is a bird regarding which my bird-hunting friends and I do not agree.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

We waited till dark; but though _Philohela_ was there, and sounded his _yak_ two or three times, -- just enough to excite our hopes, -- yet for some reason he kept to

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

"Gentlemen, on the eve of your proposed departure for Baffin Land in quest of living specimens of the five-spotted _Philohela quinquemaculata_, I have been instructed by Professor Bottomly to announce to you a great good fortune for her, for you, for the Bronx, for America, for the entire civilized world.

Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899