June 16, 1901 - Sunday . 
This afternoon we went out for a walk. Saw 
a number of Catbirds and found several bluejays 
and a mourning dove’s nest. Scared up a brown 
thrasher and hunted for its nest but did not 
find it. Visited the auails nest; ’ The old one 
sat on it and let us look at her for some time. 
Then she flew over into the bushes a few feet 
av/ ay. Her color matched that of the leaves 
perfectly. 
It began to rain and we went home. 
June 19, 1S01 - Wednesday . 
This morning we went on an excursion down the 
Mississippi on the steamer Lora. Birds were 
abundant. Bank swallows circled about in count¬ 
less numbers. 
The steamer was surrounded by black terns at 
iimes. They were new birds to me. They hung 
and flew in the air as lightly as a feather or a 
hooper's hawk. At times they gave a harsh shreik 
little keeping with their apearence. The 
°Ay was black, back and wings grey, under-tail 
coverts white. They hovered over the stone 
breakwaters in considerable numbers. The farther 
own we went Islands became more numerous. One 
saw over a dozen green herons, and there were 
^ny others not in sight probably. They kept 
grossing in front of the steamer all the time. 
° aw a few great blue herons. Kingfishers were 
'Tdite numerous. 
June 22, 1901 - Saturday. 
p Today we want on an excursion up the river, 
-dmund and I kept a list of the birds we saw. 
lock terns were moderately abundant. On a 
^ece of ground under a drawbridge were a few 
ronzed grackles. Herons of both species were 
■ a undant. A pair of great blue's kept flying 
°ng and lighting in the trees in front of the 
teamer for a long distance. 
il; s 0 ?o^ S m ^ SOt f Kiver 1 saw a kingbird feed 
/ ung as the steamer passed,the nest was on 
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