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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_014
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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13 a closer study showed it to be the clay-colored. The note was "zee zee zee" and at other times "chr chr chr" - like the scolding note of the wren. Teeter-tail. Crown and back ashy, tail black with white outer feathers, and possibly a central brown feather; wings edged with black; narrow white superciliary stripe; throat white; breast washed with rusty, slightly streaked; bill and feet dark; bill short. About the size of the Louisiana water-thrush. - Sprague's Pipit. May 9 On the way to town found three nests of mourning dove. May 10 Have heard the mockingbird sing. I am inclined to think I have heard him before and mistaken him for the brown thrasher. A note which reminded me of the rose-breasted grosbeak's called me to the door this morning, and within a few feet of the porch in a tree was a grosbeak, blue in color, similar to the indigo bunting but larger. The note is not like that of the indigo bunting. He flew almost immediately, leaving me (with with the impression that he had a crest. It must have been the blue grosbeak. He was so near I could hardly have been mistaken in the few characteristics I noticed. He might have raised his feathers a little and given me the impression of a crest. May 11 Took a five-mile walk along the country roads this afternoon, but saw no birds that I was not familiar with. Found a nest of the mourning dove with
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