Apr 30/08 I left Beloit Wisconsin at 8.10 P.M. Going to Janesville where I caught the 9.15-P.M. train for St. Paul, on Beloit occasion many spring birds were to be seen. The first thing I heard after coming Monday morning was the familiar call of the Flicker (Colaptes I saw many Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica) a few Red headed woodpeckers Kingbirds (Tyrannus tyrannus), Melospiza fusca, and one or two Anas sp. May 1st I left Minneapolis last night at 10.45 on the Northern Pacific. It was rather cold all day yesterday with a little rain, some sunshine and occa- sional flurries of snow. In the A.M. I met one of my college friends and we went out to Minne-ha-ha Falls, and from there to Fort Snelling. It was particularly interesting at the latter place as we have con- siderable geological material from there collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns when he was stationed at the fort. This morning when I awoke I found we had passed through the state of Minn.