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Title
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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Bob-white From field notes of Elizabeth Van Sant, while on a vacation in Kansas May 12, 1899 The Farm, Reno County, Kansas Fay, the boy who helps on the farm, came to the house an hour before noon and reported that he had run into a quail's nest while cultivating the corn. The bird in leaving the nest had got tangled up in the cultivator but had escaped apparently unhurt, with the loss of a few feathers. He did not know what condition the eggs were in; had not stopped to see. I went with him to the place and found the nest completely covered, a heavy clod having been turned over it in such a way as to form a roof. There was a quantity of loose earth in the nest, and I could not tell whether any of the eggs were broken until I had lifted them out one at a time - eighteen in all, and none of them injured! They were perfectly fresh, and almost without nest stains. Of course after the accident to the nest the bird would have deserted, so I was fortunate in getting such a beautiful set out of the calamity. The nest was on the ridge between furrows, hollowed into the ground and lined with grasses. A corn stalk with a bulky root was almost over the nest, but whether originally there or thrown there by the cultivator I could not say.
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Rights
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes