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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900_012
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900
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Date
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1900
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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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12 Our new lycosid ate a cricket last night, and hung a little ball of refuse on the wires of her cage. The attids stalk flies, but either are not hungry or lack nerve to make an attack. May 1 The song of the western meadowlark was heard this morning from home, thus gaining a place on our home list by a long shot. May 2 Scarlet tanager in tangle. May 3 Warbling vireo in tangle; and a barn swallow flew by the house. Two new names for home list. Olus' song is becoming more coherent every day, this morning's effort being the best we have heard. However, except in tone, it is quite unlike that of the free Baltimore orioles as we know it. May 4 Our birds eat an orange every day, one half being shredded and put in a saucer and the other half left as cut. The orioles like to pull out the little sacs one at a time. May 5 Western yellowthroat for the home list. Put a little elm, about three feet high, in a box of earth and placed it in the bird-room; also a large cottonwood branch with foliage. The birds soon began stripping the leaves from the elm, and it can not last long. Both
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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