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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_021
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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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20 first I have ever found before falling of the leaves. It was not much credit to me either; for I saw the male bird go directly to it. It was at the tip of an overhanging limb of a walnut tree, about twenty-five or thirty feet from the ground. Omaha May 28 western yellowthroat ovenbird yellow warbler brown thrasher wood thrush crested flycatcher chimney swift white-eyed vireo purple martin red-winged blackbird kingbird indigo bunting dickcissel yellow-billed cuckoo warbling vireo bank swallow prairie horned lark scarlet tanager yellow-breasted chat acadian flycatcher lark sparrow crow field sparrow chickadee bell's vireo downy woodpecker rose-breasted grosbeak red-headed woodpecker house wren barn swallow cowbird cardinal grosbeak catbird turkey vulture red-eyed towhee bluejay wood pewee Carolina nuthatch red-eyed vireo bluebird redstart nighthawk mourning dove wn. meadow lark flicker Baltimore oriole goldfinch chipping sparrow Frank, Miss Miskimins and I started at 9:30 for a day in the woods. The weather was threatening, and we hardly knew whether to make a long venture. But it cleared by noon, and we were glad we had decided on a trip to Happy Valley. We also crossed the railroad and went into the woods by the river. n/3 rose-breasted grosbeak in tree, five feet from ground. n/? yel warb, not examined. n/2 rose-breasted grosbeak. Frank found the wreck of a chickadee's nest in a stump a foot from the ground probably destroyed by some animal; nest torn out of cavity and shells scattered about; there was one unbroken egg. n/4 rose-breasted grosbeak in sapling, ten feet from ground.
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Rights
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