Alaska eggs and nests notes, v4497
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-20- 29 2/7 July 5-1907 South Marble Island-Glacier Bay, Alaska Egg was laid on the sharp rocks under a boulder. The parent was close by. Incubation fresh. J. Dixon -21- 29 2/2 July 5-1907 South Marble Island, Glacier Bay, Alaska Eggs were pulled out with a stick from away back under a rock. No birds were around. Incubation fresh. J. Dixon -22- 759 Hylocichla guttata. Alaska Hermit Thrush. 22/4 N.B.T. Photo. July 7-1907 Glacier Bay, Alaska. Nest was situated in a crotch formed by a small limb and the naked body of 10 in. hemlock tree, and was 6 1/2 ft. up. The nest was found by seeing the F fly from it, and was seemingly only a stray bunch of moss in which a cavity had been made by the bird. It contained when found three eggs and the following day four, with the parent incubating. A camera was placed in a tree a few feet away and left until the F returned, and then Miss A. sneaked up and pressed the bulb. This