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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_024
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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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23 June 4 The cuckoo was so anxious for his freedom that we could not bear the thought of going to the woods for the day and leaving him shut up in the house, so we took him to the front door and let him go. He seemed in no haste, but sat for a moment on my hand after I went onto the porch, and then flew to the nearest tree. He stayed there for some minutes, within a few feet of us. He then flew by easy stages from tree to tree, for twenty minutes staying in those in front of the house; then he flew away. bluejay Bell's vireo chimney swift catbird red-headed woodpecker field sparrow dickcissel chickadee house wren wood pewee kingbird bobwhite lark sparrow brown thrasher barn swallow scarlet tanager bank swallow mourning dove indigo bunting downy woodpecker rose-breasted grosbeak crested flycatcher red-eyed towhee Acadian flycatcher wood thrush bluebird red-eyed vireo nighthawk ovenbird yellow-billed cuckoo redstart crow western yellowthroat Carolina nuthatch chat killdeer cowbird chipping sparrow goldfinch white-eyed vireo red-winged blackbird At 9:45 Father, Frank and I started for Albright. It was warm, partly cloudy, and a southwest wind was blowing. A deserted nest of the red-eyed vireo, which contained an egg of the cowbird. A nest of the American red-start, ten feet up in an elm. A nest of the yellow warbler, five feet from the ground in a box elder, contained four eggs, beautifully wreathed about the end, the rest of the area being almost unspotted. Across the railroad, about opposite the big sandbank, we found a nest of
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Rights
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