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Situated 30 inches up in clump of blackberry brambles yard high in an open footway wood, near a creek, and weed hidden. Loosely made of wire grass and weed stems, and a thick layer of strips of grape vine bark lined thickly with brown rootlets of average size and deeply cupped.
Date01 Jun 1921
LocalityBustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.079465, -75.051789 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen TypeE
Incubationfresh
Identificationpositive (transcribed as “positive. No birds absent”)
Nest Height0.76 m (30 inches)
Nest SupportBlackberry brambles
Nest Materialswire grass, weed stems, strips of grape vine bark
Nest Liningbrown rootlets
Near Waternear water
Nest Settingopen footway wood
Nest NotesLoosely made and deeply cupped, weed hidden in yard-high bramble clump
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF RICHARD F. MILLER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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