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Title
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Mott's Grove
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Date
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1890
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-00781
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Rights
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Ca
Locale: Uott's Grove, north of Hampton
Franklin County, Towas 100 niles due weet
from Dubuque. Placenent in time: Yay-June
1890. - ly age wes fifteen yoeres and
I ected the part with an obvicus degree of
fidelity.
A largish bird flew fron a tree necr by. It circled back, end seemed
a bit bothered. And then I saw the nost.
Wy very firet nost of Cooper's Hauk! - or, es I then proferred to call
ri, (Bonaparte), £.0.Ue
it, “Sockpiter coope fo. 233" = vorbetim from ny
Bibles which chanced to be Oliver Devie's "Nests and Zgge of North American
Birds." For the glaxour of novencleture is alluring, in one's early days.
I was not et all sure of the significance of tho paronthesized Bonaparte -
fixed impression that he bad beon a French General or something,
end certainly not « Scientific Cologist like myselfy however, it was in the
Book, 80 it belonged. - As for the American Ornithologist
Union
check-list Mumber 393, that eabodied an oxectitude dear to ny juvenile
“ckentific" heart, end simply could not be omitted.
Tho nest was thirty fect up, in a slender oak, which I promptly climbed. -
one 0;
One bluish egg, without marks. Wot so good. For I mse
Scientific Oologist, end I wus collecting Sets of birds’ eggs; i,0,, the
totel of eggs laid by the mother-bird before hatching. Cluts ‘
Britioh bird-booke obscurely term whet we Americans openly cell Sete -
and I have nover liked thet word elutehs fer such @ revehous graep would
surely break ‘en. Clutch indeod! it sounds as morbidly sequisitive as
Grabs which is no wey to handle eggs.
