the Thoreau Log.
28 May 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Rainy.

  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 . . .

(Journal, 8:356-357)

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