1902.
June 10
(No 5)
  We all saw her the instant she took flight and marked
the spot whence she issued within a foot or less but there
was no nest there and the bank seemed so unlikely a place
for one that Thayer passed along its base looking only very
superficially while I followed him taking scarcely more pains.
Harriman, however, lingered behind parting the grass with his
hands & going over the ground very thoroughly. Presently
he shouted "here it is" and a moment later all three of 
us were feasting our eyes on the treasure we had sought
so hard and long to find - a Henslow's Sparrow's nest with
its complement of four eggs which looked perfectly fresh,
although, on blowing them afterwards, Mr. Thayer ascertained 
that they would have hatched in two or three days the embryos
being of large size and covered with fine feathers.
  Before any one of us had touched either the nest or its contents
I seated myself on the ground beside it and jotted down
the notes from which I now compile the following description:-
Map of general locality
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