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9 ft. up in apple tree in orchard, 12 feet from trunk, saddled to a horizontal crotch. Made of considerable amount of love grass stems and stalks and tops, weed stems and plenty of mud, lined thickly with soft dry grasses. Seemed nest was mud discernible.
Date09 Jun 1903
LocalitySandiford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.066068, -75.078336 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen Typee
Incubationfresh
Identificationbird seen (transcribed as “by the birds”)
Nest Height2.74 m (9 feet)
Nest Supportapple tree
Nest Materialslove grass stems and stalks and tops, weed stems, mud
Nest Liningsoft dry grasses
Nest Settingorchard
Nest Notes12 feet from trunk, saddled to a horizontal crotch. Seemed nest was mud discernible.
HeaderCollection of Richard F. Miller.
Further DetailsNo. 704 | No. 761 | 46

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