1878 Mt. Carmel Ill.
Thursday
April 18. Cloudy with heavy
rain in the forenoon. After
dinner drove out to some oak
woods near the town with Robert & Joe R.
I took only my collecting pistol with
which I shot five birds including
my first Hel. [Helminthophila] pina. Robert took
his gun but shot nothing of any
importance. I took the following
Hel. pina [male]; D. [Dendroica] palmarum [male];
D. [Dendroica] virens [male]; Eremophila alpes-
tris [male] & [female]; The woods were
very gloomy and but few birds
visable [sic] [visible]. Around an old dead horse
were collected dozens of Buzzards &
we drove within twenty feet of some
of them. Saw a single Falco
sparverius an uncommon Hawk
here. Saw also a pair of Shrikes
(L. [Lanius] ludovicianus) and found their
new finished nest in an osage hedge
by the roadside. Saw in a wheat
field what R. thought to be Pucea aestivalis[.]
1878 Mt. Carmel Ill.
Friday
April 19. Clear & warm. Our first day in
the bottoms across the Wabash, & a full one.
Drove to a little pond, surrounded by cane.
Birds swarming. I took the following
Centurus car. [carolinus] one; Mel. erythro. one; Vireo
olivaceus, one; Sitta carolin. [carolinensis], one; D. [Dendroica] caerulea
three (one [female]); Hel. [Helminthophila] pina five (one [female]); D.
dom. [dominica] albilora one; P. [Protonotaria] citrea one (R. R. three
more); Op. fomosus R. R. one; Picus
villosus one;
  Arrivals noted. P. citrea about a dozen
(one [female]); Hel. [Helminthophila] pina, gen ar [general arrival]; ab'nt [abundant]; one [female].
H. [Helminthophila] chrysoptera two [male]; D. [Dendroica] caerulea gen. ar. [general arrival] ([female]);
Op. formosus, one only; Ic. [Icterus] Baltimore several;
I. [Icterus] spurius, several; Vireo olivaceus one;
Cy. [Cyanocitta] cyanea, several; 
  There was evidently a general influx
of migratory birds to day. The bottom
lands were fairly alive with them,
and the locality inspected is in
every way especially favorable for an
abundance of bird life[.]
Nests Cardinalis cir. one egg