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about 5 inches wide. It was made of fine shreds of bark, grasses and shreds of weeds. I took it down and home with me. The entrance hole was 1 3/4 inches wide. Then I went home.
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Mar. 19, Monday,
Tonight after school I sewed the main part of the nest onto the foundation that I had saved with black thread

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The foundation was mixed with the branches so that I only got part of it.

It consisted of bark, grass, leaves and fine weather beaten strips of bark.

The upper part was bark, leaves and grass It was finer than that in the foundation. It was put together compactly and would keep out the wind.