1878 Mt. Carmel Illinois
May 11 (Saturday) Spent the
entire day in the house at
work on birds and eggs.
1878 Mt. Carmel Illinois
May 12 (Sunday) Clear and
a lovely day. Spent the forenoon
packing. In the P. M. Robert &
I with Yance Wells to row, started
up White river to visit some nests.
I had good luck with both mine
securing two nests of P. [Protonotaria] citrea
with 4 and 5 eggs respectively.
The latter set had been incubated
several day[s]. I shot the female
of the last visit. As we came
down the river at sunset it
was very lovely and I
felt just a little sad at looking
upon this the scene of so many hard
days labor, for the last time.
Night Hawks were as usual
flying about over the water in 
all directions. In the afternoon
as we drove over the "Commons"
we saw a pair of Mimus
polyglottus [sic] [polyglottos] the only ones
noted during our stay.