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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_018
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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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17 Saw again the blue grosbeak, and had a better chance to observe the bird through my glass. - Also added four more familiar birds to my Kansas list: redstart, red-headed woodpecker, bluebird, cowbird. All the nests in the orchard are prospering. May 20 Examined the nest in one of the apple trees which I found completed a week ago and which I had concluded was abandoned; it now contains two eggs of the mockingbird. I have never seen the mockers in the tree or near by, and it seems strange that the nest should have been finished so long before it was needed. May 21 Took a trip out to the big cattle pastures in the sandhills. Just inside the fence about five miles from the farm, we found a little marsh, with three different kinds of water birds in and about it. The most showy was one that easily identified as Wilson's phalarope. Another was the least sandpiper. The third species was the most abundant, larger than the least sandpiper, but not so large as the phalarope. I have not been able to identify it. Another beautiful bird seen on this trip was the Arkansas kingbird. May 23 Something, possibly the bluejays, is playing havoc with the nests in the orchard. At least eight have been rifled - two of the brown thrasher, five of the dove, and one of the mockingbird. The last is the great loss;
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Rights
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