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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_020
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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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19 for - a set of mockingbirds' eggs to take to Frank. The boys at the farm had told me of the nest, and as they take every egg they find I considered it so much clear gain to give them placement in a collection where they will be appreciated, instead of having them turned into playthings for a day and then destroyed. There were four eggs, fresh. The nest was in a mulberry tree about seven feet from the ground, of sticks and fibers lined with rootlets. At Kansas City, Missouri May 26 dickcissel crested flycatcher catbird Bell's vireo chimney swift chickadee flicker hairy woodpecker wood thrush summer tanager house wren orchard oriole wood pewee robin Baltimore oriole tufted titmouse red-headed woodpecker red-eyed vireo mourning dove white-eyed vireo brown thrasher ovenbird indigo bunting yellow-billed cuckoo bluejay cardinal grosbeak bobwhite Carolina nuthatch scarlet tanager nighthawk cowbird purple martin Arrived at 7 in the morning and stayed until about 11 in the evening. The woods which I had visited before were so interesting that I went immediately to them after breakfast. A new bird, which I at once suspected was a tanager of some sort, allowed me to observe it and note its markings. It was bright red all over except the wings, which were suffused with brown. The red was not so brilliant as the color of the scarlet tanager, being more the color of the male cardinal grosbeak. Upon looking it up in the Key I found it to be the summer tanager. I was quite elated over finding a nest of the Baltimore oriole - the
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Rights
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