Arrival at Mt. Carmel
1878.
Wednesday
April 17 [Wednesday April 17, 1878]
Were roused from our berths at 2 A.M.
to find that we had arrived at Vincennes.
Here we disembarked & waited an hour
for the freight train which was to
convey us to Mt. Carmel. It was a
lovely moonlight night - or rather morning
and as we smoked a cigar on the 
platform of the depot a Whippoorwill
sang in some woods beyond the
meadow to the Eastward, and when
the first streaks of dawn appeared a
Bewicks Wren the first I had ever
heard burst into song in a near
door yard; more of him anon.
Soon we were again jolting away
on the train & a little after sunrise
we reached Mt. Carmel, a beautiful 
town built on the crest of a rolling
prairie swell. After breakfast we
started off for a reconnaissance in
the woods. Took a nest of Collurio
ludovicianus [Collurio ludovicianus] 3 fresh eggs. Shot both
parents. Also Melanerpes, one. Loph. bicolor [Lophophanes bicolor]
three, Cyanura cristata, five; Cardinalis
one; Seiurus nov. [Seiurus noveboracensis] one; & several others.
I saw my first Chondestes grammacus.
It flew from the road & lit on a
fence post uttering a feeble chip.
Saw a few Dend. caerulea [Dendroica caerulescens], one Pyranga 
rubra [Piranga rubra], & countless Melanerpes. also
Vireo flavifrons & the characteristic
resident species. Evidently the
Warblers are not yet here. The
dogwood (Cornus) is in full bloom
& fills the woods with is [its] snowy masses.