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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_004
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2
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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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34 July 5 Took two more pictures of the grosbeaks, and both are excellent. July 6 Put the grosbeaks in a large cage. The male for the first time tucked his head under his wing to sleep. The other slept with her beak pointed into the air. She has as a rule seemed stronger and more developed, but in this he is ahead. July 7 Both grosbeaks tucked their heads tonight. Philip is eager to get into the cage with them. We put him in tonight to see what he would do. He promptly got onto the highest perch and went to sleep. One of the grosbeaks in moving about awakened him. He stood it patiently twice, but the third time he entered a protest with his beak. July 9 kingbird wood pewee yellow warbler y warbling vireo yellow-billed cuckoo goldfinch field sparrow indigo bunting dickcissel bluejay red-headed woodpecker robin flicker wood thrush red-eyed towhee downy woodpecker catbird bobwhite Baltimore oriole brown thrasher Bell's vireo At about twelve o'clock Father, Frank and I went to the Poor Farm woods. Frank climbed up to the Baltimore oriole nest, half expecting to find it empty; but the young were still there. He two of them from the nest and brought them down to get a picture of them; the third got away among the leaves. They were perfectly feathered and uncommonly mature to be still in the nest. They were so wild that a photograph
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Rights
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