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Placed 6 ft. up in honeysuckle vines 2 ft. thick and 8 ft. high, depending from a hackberry tree in tree row near bottom of a 20 ft. R.R. embankment near a creek & poorly traveled road. Well made of vine and grass stems & fine strips of grape vine bark, lined thickly with fine vine tendrils & deeply cupped and of normal size.
Date21 Apr 1930
LocalityHolmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates40.038134, -75.019711 ↗ map
CollectorMiller, Richard F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen TypeE
Incubationfresh
Identificationbird on nest (transcribed as “saw female on nest”)
Nest Height1.83 m (6 feet)
Nest Supporthoneysuckle vines
Nest Materialsvine stems, grass stems, fine strips of grape vine bark
Nest Liningfine vine tendrils
Near Waternear water
Nest Settingtree row near bottom of 20 ft railroad embankment
Nest NotesWell made, deeply cupped, normal size. Located in honeysuckle vines 2 ft thick and 8 ft high, depending from hackberry tree near poorly traveled road.
HeaderOOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF RICHARD F. MILLER, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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