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A pair of Indigo Buntings were much excited about something. I could not see what it was. I heard them while quite a distance off.
Went over to that Indigo Bunting's nest. There was nothing in it. The lining had been pulled up a little. I anylyzed it, the foundation and outer part was comprised of elm oak and maple leaves, Buckwheat straw birch and Basswood bark, coarse grass weedstems, horsehair,
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cobwebs, elm seeds, maple bud coverings, basswood seeds with leaf stems of round sticks tights. petioles and skeleton leaves, small snuff weed stems, small piece rotten wood, seeds, rootlets, tag - alder flower, newly opened buds.
The lining was weed stems, lawn grass with seeds long black, white and brown horsehairs. coarse grass, rootlets, small oatstraw, climbers of creeping plant, black and white rootlets, and a flower cluster of some weed. The greater part