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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_023
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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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22 Injured and is remarkably tame, not attempting to escape when approached. We have concluded to keep him long enough to get a picture. June 2 Took a very satisfactory picture of the cuckoo on the back of a chair. He has a delightful fragrance about his plumage. It is like the odor of the elms which one sometimes encounters in the woods; pervasive, not cloying. His disposition is an unaccountable combination of tameness and wildness. Evidently he has learned to avoid flying against the window pane, but he runs back and forth nervously, trying to get through the glass. At the same time, he seems not to have the slightest fear of us, allowing us to go to him and take him in our hands. He will perch upon our fingers while we carry him from room to room. Indeed, when we are caressing him, or holding him on our hands, he seems to forget his desire to escape. He will not eat , however, although he swallows the food which we place in his bill. He drinks freely. June 3 The cuckoo continues very restless. Some of the windows have inside screens, and he has injured some of his tail-feathers by flying against them. He has already broken off the longest feather, and the others are looking ragged. He ahs finally learned to accept food offered to him on the end of a toothpick, and it is an odd thing to see a full-grown bird standing on my left hand and taking food offered by my right hand. Have made several efforts at pictures; results not fully known.
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Rights
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