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Nest held 1 egg 3 days previously. Built 4 feet up in a thick spice wood bush 6 feet high about 3 feet out on a horizontal branch 4 feet long amidst thick shrubbery in border of a wood and small thicket. Well made of weed and grass stems, dead tree leaves and layers of grape vine bark strips, and lined thinly with brown rootlets; of average size.
Date01 Jun 1928
LocalityBustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.087505, -75.056358 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen TypeE
Incubationfresh
Identificationunknown
Nest Height1.22 m (4 feet)
Nest Supportspice wood bush
Nest Materialsweed stems, grass stems, dead tree leaves, grape vine bark strips
Nest Liningbrown rootlets
Nest Settingborder of a wood and small thicket, amidst thick shrubbery
Nest NotesNest held 1 egg 3 days previously. Built in a thick spice wood bush 6 feet high about 3 feet out on a horizontal branch 4 feet long. Well made and of average size. Low nest.
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