jvjotes on Birds of Winchendon, Mass- 
William Brewster. 
Urinator imber.—One or more pairs of Loons breed regularly in every 
pond of sufficient size near Winchendon. Mr. Albert Henry, of Gardner, 
took a set of two eggs at Blue’s Reservoir in 1887 . At Wellington’s Reser¬ 
voir, a large sheet of water about five miles north of Winchendon, a 
farmer living near the shore assured us that he saw several of the birds 
daily through the entire summer. He thought that there were at least 
three pairs in the pond in 1888 . 
Auk, V, Oct,, 1888. p.300 
Editor of 0. <fc 0. ; 
It may be new to the readers of the O. & O. 
to know that the Loon will breed in the same 
nest after being disturbed; so here goes. It 
was my good fortune to be up on the Grand 
Manitoulin Island, Canada, trouting early in 
July, this season (1890). 
Sunday, July 6 tli, being a day of rest, our 
guide who had taken two sets of Loon from 
the same nest for me this season late in May 
and June, said, “Boss, if you would like to 
see a Loon’s nest we will take the old boat and 
go over and see if she has laid any more.” 
This, of course, was very welcome news, so off 
we put to a mucky deposit of, say, twenty-five 
acres in the rear of our guide’s home. At the 
lower corner of the lake on a shoal forty feet 
from shore was a pile of lily roots, etc , from 
the bottom of the lake similar, “ only smaller,” 
to a muskrat’s house. Mrs. Loon vacated it 
by sliding off into the water and coming up at j 
safe distance, where she set up a mournful 1 
shriek for a few moments, later on taking 
wing and going to the next lake for a “visit 
with a neighbor,” as the guide styled it, say¬ 
ing “ every morning both pair visit each other.” 
1 Judge my surprise at so late a day to see depos- | 
ited on the flat pile of rank trash two fine 
! showy eggs. My guide took for me, in 1889, 
two sets of two from a nest within two rods of 
same spot, and again, in 1888, two from almost 
the same spot. Do not know if it is the same 
pair of birds, but for the past three years one 
pair of birds have located in this lake, building 
their nest in nearly the same spot. 
The last set of eggs varied greatly in size, 
one being large as eggs in the May set, but the 
other so small that you would not think them 
a set if not positive as I am. 
Georr/e E. Harris. 
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