Thoreau writes in his journal:
To Painted-Cup Meadow.
Potentilla argentea, maybe several days. Trifolium pratense.
A seringo or yellow-browed (??) sparrow’s nest about ten or twelve rods southwest of house-leek rock, between two rocks which are several rods apart northwest and southeast; four eggs. The nest of coarse grass stubble, lined with fine grass, and is two thirds at least covered by a jutting sod. Egg, bluish-white ground, thickly blotched with brown, yet most like a small groundbird’s egg . . .