1878 Mt. Carmel, Illinois
  Second trip up Potoka Creek, Ind. [Indiana]
Monday April 22. A cloudy, gloomy
day with frequent heavy showers.
Spent the entire day up Potoka with
R. Joe Ridg. [Ridgeway] & Mr. Willis. Forgot to take
any dinner & reached home at dark
nearly famished.
  Took D. [Dendroica] caerulea one [male]; D. dom. albi [Dendroica dominica] albilora
one [male]; Prot. [Protonotaria] citrea, four; My. [Myiodioctes] mitratus
one [female]; Parus carolinensis one; Thry. [Thryomanes]
bewicki (in R's garden before starting) one.
Arrivals. My. [Myiodioctes] mitratus one [female]
Nests. Parus carolinensis one.
four fresh eggs; one eight eggs
nearly hatched, both taken by R.
  We saw several large broods of young
Wood Ducks and a single pair 
of adult Loph. [Lophodytes] cucullatus that
evidently had young. Hylotomas [sic] [Hylatomas]
pileatus is about as abundant here
as in Maine:- not nearly so
numerous as in Fla. Heard a 
number of Barred Owls hooting.
  The forests are fast leafing out.
1878. Mt. Carmel - Illinois.
  A Drive in Illinois.
Thursday April 23. Another dull day
with heavy rain in the morning & occa-
sional shower thro' [through] the day. After
dinner Mr. R. (senior) asked me to drive
out to visit a friend of his who lived about
four miles from town. I took my pistol
only and shot two birds
Took Euspiza americana my first, a [male]
Vireo flavifrons, one.
Nests. Cyanea cristata, nest 5 fresh eggs.
" [Nests] Melanerpes erytho. [sic] [erythrogaster] opened an empty one.
Saw very few birds. Watched a pair of
Lophopha[?] that were building but
could not follow them. Rapped on a
stub & from a hole some ten feet up, a
Red headed Woodpecker protruded its
head. Cut the hole open & found -
nothing: it was just finished.
Saw a pair of Collurio ludovic [ludoviciana]
The roads were very muddy & exceedingly
monotonous stretching straight away
between interminable snake fences,
with wheat fields on either side.