Field Notes · Catnum 105273 · score 9 — moderate uncertainty
This is an unusual set as the color and markings are so different and the second nest that I have ever found. Other nest was found in '86 about 200 yards from where I found this but eggs were so far advanced I failed to save them. Nest of cane leaves, moss and lined with fine grass in oak 7 feet up.
Metadata · Catnum 105273
Date20 May 1888
LocalityChatham, Georgia, USA
CollectorPerry, Troup D.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen Typee
Incubationfresh
Identificationpositive (transcribed as “Same Bird”)
Nest Height2.13 m (7 feet)
Nest Supportoak
Nest Materialscane leaves, moss
Nest Liningfine grass
Nest NotesThis is an unusual set as the color and markings are so different. Second nest the collector has ever found; other nest was found in 1886 about 200 yards away but eggs were too far advanced to save.
HeaderJacobs Collection. Abnormal
Further DetailsWFVZ# 105.273 | 593 | 1834 | 10
✦ Anecdote
This record documents an unusually marked Northern Cardinal egg set that the collector found remarkable enough to note as abnormal, and represents only the second Cardinal nest this particular collector had ever discovered.