Cambridge, Mass.
1914.
January 14
[January 14, 1914]

Blanchard's call & testimony.

  Loring M. Blanchard of Newry, Maine, called on me
this afternoon bringing the skin of a very large & old Black Bear
killed last autumn near Poplar Tavern. He says Bears occur
as commonly there now as ever before. Some of his other
testimony relating to the conditions there & at the lake is as follows:

Nest of Saw-whet at Newry, Maine.

  The nest of the Saw-whet Owl found by Blanchard
several years ago in Newry was in a yellow birch by
the roadside. He found it by happening to see the bird
looking out of the entrance hole which was of about
her size. Passing that way almost daily after this he
could always make he [her] show herself thus by a whistled
imitation of the whet-saw notes. The nest was not
disturbed until he thought the bird had completed
her sit when he broke it open & found four eggs in
the cavity which was almost as large as a water pail.
He wrote me about this at the time. The eggs were sold to John. E. Thayer.