1878
  Tuesday - On the cars
  April 16 - A clear, sunny day[.]
Took breakfast at Grafton
W. Va. Thus the forenoon
we were passing swiftly thro' [through]
West. Va. and among other
familiar scenes I saw once
more our old field of operations
Petroleum. Passed Parkersburg 
at 10 A. M. and thro' [through] the
remainder of the day we were
running thro' [through] Ohio. Saw a
good many birds but none
of especial interest. Doves were
especially numerous. The road
passes thro' a fertile & highly
cultivated country. The beautiful
red bud was in bloom everywhere
& gave a very affective tinge of
color to the nearly leafless woods.
At 7 P. M. reached Cincinnati; had
supper & embarked on the V. &
M. R. R. A heavy pall of smoke
overhangs the city. English Sparrows
numerous.
1878
Wednesday - Mt. Carmel
  April 17. Roused at 2 A.M.
to disembark at Vincennes, Ind.
where we waited till 5.30 for the
early freight to Mt. Carmel. A
lovely moonlight [sic] [moonlit] night - or morning.
Smoked a cigar on the platform. A
Whipporwill singing in the woods beyond
a meadow, and with the first streaks
of dawn the beautiful song of Bewick[']s
Wren from a near door yard. 
Reached Mt. Carmel at sunrise; it
is a beautiful town - for a Western one -
perched on the crest of a prairie
swell. Introductions to the numerous
Ridgeways: - breakfast - and a
reconnoisance [sic] [reconnaissance] in the woods about.
Took a pair of typical Collurio luduvic [Collyrio ludoviciana]
with their nest & 3 eggs; also Melanerpes
one, S. [Sturnella] magna, Loph. [Lophodytes] bicolor three; Mniotilta varia [female]; Cy. [Cyanocitta] cristata
five in two shots, Cardinalis am; Seiurus [?]
one. Saw my first Chondestes gram [grammacus]
also D. caerulea (a few) 1 Py. [Pyranga] rubra, &
Vireo flav. [flaviventris]. Dogwood (Cornus) in full bloom.
[margin]Took a nest & two eggs of Thry. [Thryomanes] bewicki./[/margin]