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Placed 6 ft. up in clump of thick blackberry bushes in thicket bordering woods. Loosely constructed of twigs, grass stems, weed stalks & bark strips, lined thickly with rootlets & several black horsehairs of normal size.
Date29 May 1911
LocalityFox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.071519, -75.079542 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen TypeE
Incubationunknown (transcribed as “five days”)
Identificationflushed (transcribed as “by flushed ?”)
Nest Height1.83 m (6 feet)
Nest Supportclump of thick blackberry bushes
Nest Materialstwigs, grass stems, weed stalks, bark strips
Nest Liningrootlets, black horsehairs
Nest Settingthicket bordering woods
Nest NotesLoosely constructed nest lined thickly with rootlets and several black horsehairs of normal size
HeaderCOLLECTION OF RICHARD F. MILLER, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA.
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