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Nest: Diameter, Outside, 6 inches Inside, 3 3/8 inches Depth, Outside, 4 1/4 Inside, 2 Composed of coarse dead grass stems, grapevine & weed bark strips, fine grasses & rootlets. Situated about 3 feet up in elderberry bushes and wild grape vine in clump of elderberry bushes & vines in back grown field.
Date09 Jun 1921
LocalityDemarest, Bergen, New Jersey, USA
CollectorBowdish, Beecher S.
Eggs in Set4
Specimen TypeE
Incubationadvanced (transcribed as “about four fifths”)
Identificationbird on nest (transcribed as “birds at nest”)
Nest Height0.91 m (3 feet)
Nest Supportelderberry bushes and wild grape vine
Nest Materialscoarse dead grass stems, grapevine bark strips, weed bark strips
Nest Liningfine grasses, rootlets
Nest Settingclump of elderberry bushes and vines in back grown field
Nest NotesNest diameter: outside 6 inches, inside 3 3/8 inches. Depth: outside 4 1/4 inches, inside 2 inches.
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF B. S. BOWDISH, DEMAREST, N. J.
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