Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M.—With some boys to Flint’s Pond, to see the nests mentioned on last [two pages]. The hermit (?) thrush’s nest referred to on last page is a rather shallow nest of loose construction, though sufficiently thick-bottomed, about five inches in diameter and hardly one deep within, externally of rather coarse and loosely arranged stubble, chiefly everlasting stems with the flowers yet emitting some fragrance, some whorled loosestrife with the seed-vessels, etc., etc.; within, finer grass and pine-needles . . .
