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In a thicket of low bushes and sprouts in a field, near a wood, placed a yard up in a six foot thick huckleberry bush and well hidden. Neatly made of twigs, grass stems, several dead leaves, bark strips, and lined thickly with black rootlets, of average size and well built.
Date24 May 1924
LocalityPennsville, Salem, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates39.650311, -75.509153 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen TypeE
Incubationcommenced (transcribed as “started”)
Identificationpositive
Nest Height0.91 m (1 yard)
Nest Supporthuckleberry bush
Nest Materialstwigs, grass stems, dead leaves, bark strips
Nest Liningblack rootlets
Nest Settingthicket of low bushes and sprouts in a field, near a wood
Nest NotesPlaced in a six foot thick huckleberry bush and well hidden. Neatly made, of average size and well built.
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF RICHARD F. MILLER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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