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Placed 5 ft. up in a dense clump of blackberry bushes. Loosely made of weed stalks, reed blades & grape vine bark strips, lined thickly with rootlets.
Date05 Jun 1909
LocalityHolmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.03766, -75.017701 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen TypeE
Incubationslight
Identificationbird seen (transcribed as “by the birds”)
Nest Height1.52 m (5 feet)
Nest Supportblackberry bushes
Nest Materialsweed stalks, reed blades, grape vine bark strips
Nest Liningrootlets
Nest Settingdense clump of blackberry bushes
HeaderCOLLECTION OF R. F. MILLER
Further Details2199 | 73/3

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