1878 Mt. Carmel Illinois
  April 30. (Tuesday) Spent the
entire day in the house skinning
our birds. The locality where
we spent yesterday is a most
interesting one. A little back
from the river is a vast windfall
many miles in extent the track
of the Cyclone of 1877. The trees
lie piled and uprooted and under-
growth is already springing up to
conceal their prostrate forms.
Over the comparative open space
Buzzards were wheeling by
dozens and probably had nests
somewhere in the vicinity. About 
the windfall Hel. [Helminthophila] pinus and Cy. [Cyanocitta]
cyanea were especially abundant.
The Ictinea noted was also
scaling about over the same
place. The pair of Hel. [Helminthophila] pina [sic] were
shot within a few yards of
their nest[.]
1878 Mt. Carmel - Illinois
Third day on White & Potoka rivers
May 1 (Wednesday) Clear and very
warm. Started early and spent the day
alone in the skiff, working up White
river a mile or two & late in the P. M. running
down the Wabash & up Potoka creek,
Took P. [Protonotaria] citrea eight; O. [Oporornis] formosus, eight;
D. dom. [Dendroica dominica] albilora, My [Myiodioctes] mitratus one,
Cy. cyanea one; D. [Dendroica] tigrina, one; Icterus
spurius one; D. [Dendroica] blackburniae one;
Arrivals D. [Dendroica] tigrina one [male].
Nests. Turdus mustelinus 4 (fresh)
" [Nests] Coccyzus americanus 3 (" [fresh])
  Heard a number of yellow throat[ed] Warblers on
White river. Near the mouth of Potoka I
saw a fine Ictinea sailing about over a
pool in the woods. Potoka creek I found
had gone out of its banks and the forest
flooded for a considerable distance back
was fairly alive with birds. Prothonotoaries
were especially abundant. Hel. [Helminthophila] peregrine
was also fairly abundant & I heard
several Gon. ludoviciana. As I reached
the W. fork of the Wabash at sunset E. [Eremophila] cornuta was
singing all over the commons.