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5 feet up in an arrow-wood sprout 7 feet high, built upon horizontal branches, between upright growing branches that entwined the shrub in a mass. Small and flimsy, very loosely made of grass & weed stems, several dry stems & grape vine bark strips, lined thinly with fine root tendrils, very shallow.
Date10 Jun 1927
LocalityHolmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.038134, -75.019711 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set2
Specimen TypeE
Incubationfresh
Identificationbird seen (transcribed as “female seen”)
Nest Height1.52 m (5 feet)
Nest Supportarrow-wood sprout
Nest Materialsgrass, weed stems, dry stems, grape vine bark strips
Nest Liningfine root tendrils
Nest Settingarrow-wood sprout 7 feet high with horizontal branches and upright growing branches entwined in a mass
Nest NotesSmall and flimsy, very loosely made, lined thinly, very shallow
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF RICHARD F. MILLER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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