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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 2_028
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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 is good to eat. Olus relishes graham bread, because he was partly raised on it; Origold will not touch it. She loves raisins; Olus will not eat them. Olus thinks cockroaches are find stuff, and comes with haste to the wires to get one; Origold tried one, and has scorned them ever since. At first she would not eat shreds of raw beef, but has learned to enjoy that food, while Origold eat them with relish. They agree in liking mealworms, but Origold is much more eager for them than Olus. She learned in a single day to recognize the small tin pail in which we keep the worms, and when she sees one of us approaching the cage with it she fairly dances. Her bill is of a bluish color, as the bills of our baby orioles were at first. Her upper mandible is noticeably longer than the lower, and she picks things up sidewise when they are very small. Olus' bill is black. When we first got her, she flew against the wall and the furniture when let out of the cage' but she quickly learned to avoid objects. In flying to a perch, such as the back of a chair, she was very awkward, often missing the mark; but this too she soon corrected. She now is as graceful and nimble as Olus. Probably her lack of sensing bulk, and her inaccuracy in perching, were due to long confinement in a cage.
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Rights
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