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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1900_013
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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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13 orioles selected sleeping places in the cottonwood. We have never seen a cecropia moth emerge from its cocoon. So Frank has stuck the twigs supporting our cocoons into box of sand, and has arranged a contrivance of rubber and tinfoil which, while not hindering the process of emergence, will make an electric contact and ring a bell when the proceeding begins. But of course all of us are at our duties down town daily. May 6 In a walk through Redick's Grove and to the poor farm region today, we saw the following birds: rose-breasted grosbeak yellowthroat myrtle warbler yellow warbler red-eyed towhee tree sparrow cowbird goldfinch ruby-crowned kinglet bluejay dove field sparrow warbling vireo house wren kingbird Harris' sparrow downy woodpecker lark sparrow chipping sparrow browh thrasher bobwhite clay-colored sparrow chickadee wood thrush olive-backed thrush chimney swift bank swallow Louisiana water thrush flicker We saw a brood of young robins in Redick's Grove, fully fledged, the mother feeding. Added Harris sparrow to the home list. May 7 Four new names for the home list: red-headed woodpecker, mourning dove, wood thrush, and clay-colored sparrow Visited Mr. Skow's taxidermy shop this noon, and while there found that
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Rights
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