1878 Wednesday April 17 Arrival at Mt Carmel 419 When boarded from our biths at 2.30 A.M. to find that we had arrived at Miami. Then 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 Whip-poor-will flew in from woods beyond the meadows to the Eastward, and when the first streaks of dawn appeared a Bewick's Wren the first I had ever heard burst into song in a run over yard: more of him anon. Soon we were again jolting away on the train & a little after Dublin 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 Colubris Indoricians & fresh eggs. Shot both parents. Also Melampus or Loph. Bestor Thru, Cyanus cristata fin; cardinals one; Saurus nov. one, & found others. I saw my first Chordostes grammecea It flew from the road & lit on a fence post uttering a subtle chip. Saw 2 few Dend. Caerula, on Hylope Cebra, & Countess Melampis. etc. Virus florifrons & the characteristic resident species. Evidently the Warblers are not yet here. The dog wood (Cornus) is in full bloom & fills the woods with its snowy masses.