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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_027
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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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57 mostly of trills. It is quite unlike the phrased song of the wild wood thrush as we know it, and the notes lack volume. Since them he has sung more or less every morning, usually quite early. As the weather turned colder we moved the cages into the bay window in the dining room. This change of scenery seemed to cause Texas a marked uneasiness, which did not wear away for several days. He likes cockroaches as well as meal-worms, and is quite deft at catching one when it is turned loose in his cage. For the best of reasons (which a later note will discuss) we loose the cockroaches one at a time, and keep an eye on it until it is eaten - or worse! He has a droll way of standing statuesque and looking perfectly innocent for five or ten seconds, after he has swallowed the roach or a worm. The other birds usually "smack" their bills and whet them elaborately after they have eaten anything. Texas is much disturbed if another bird enters his cage for a visit, as they sometimes do when the door is left open. Origold The little oriole we found to be as fulsomely plump as our own birds were a while back, before our tragedy; we consider this very strange for a bird long habitant of a bird-store. We intend to get her down to a lesser weight, as we have succeeded in doing with Olus. She is furnishing us a fine opportunity to compare her likes and dislikes with those of Olus. She has notions of her own as to what
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Rights
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