This mocker or the cat-bird I heard along the Mississippi as I came up. The redheaded woodpecker is here, and also all along through the great West. The plover (?) killdeer (?) (as on Cape Cod). The wood-thrush (or hermit?) Wilson's thrush; Fringilla socialis and melodia, goldfinch, oriole, yellowthroat and warbling vireo heard,—cherry-bird heard also. The rice-bird was seen in a low place in the woods at St. Anthony; the cow-bird on the prairie there, and the crossbill in the woods and swamps; the brown snipe on the prairie at St. Anthony. Saw the killdeer and another plover (?) on the prairie there. On May 29, at the Minnehaha Falls, a rose-breasted grosbeak was eating the seeds of the slippery elm. There I got the horned lark (Otociris alpestris), and saw the chestnut-sided warbler near the "laughing water." The slippery elm is very common here, and upright and often large,—half the size of a large white elm. The seringo bird on the prairie at St. Anthony.
These are the birds I have noticed since Chicago and some before: Saw the night-
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