Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] MON. [Monday] JAN. [January] 15, 1900 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & calm. The trees in early
morning powdered with snow which clung
to every twig.
  32 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
  38 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
  Corvus americanus. - one in lindens.
  Dryobates pubescens. - " " [one in] elm.
  Driving with C. in sleigh 9 - 10 A.M.
  Spent day working on last summer's
journal sheets & bird notes. No callers.
Gray Squirrels eating suet greedily this
winter though they did not touch it last.
Pigeons laying freely for the past two weeks.
Word came to us this morning a cousin
Mrs. F. H. Manning died [delete]yesterday[/delete] in Phila [Philadelphia] on
Saturday. I drove in town & saw Frank this evening.
Wea. [Weather] TUESDAY [January] 16 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Fine, drizzling rain in A.M.
P.M. clear, clam & warm
  38 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
  44 [degrees] - 3 P.M.
  Parus atricapillus - 2 in garden. W. D.
  The day was broken up for me by
Mrs. F. H. Manning's funeral at St. Stephen's
church at 12. C. [Caroline] & I drove in at 10.30.
I was one of four ushers. There were few
people I knew besides the Mannings, Greenoughs,
L[?]s & Mary Hayward. Service by [?] Hall.
Dinner at Rever House. Bought a pair of
ruff necked Pigeons & a pair of t[?]s.
Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] WED. [Wednesday] JAN. 17 1900 Ther. [Theromometer]
  Clear with moderate W. wind
& slowly falling temperature.
  31 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
  27 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
  26 [degrees] - 6 P.M.
  Dryobates pubescens. - [male] in garden at Mus. [Museum] suet
  Spent A.M. working on the notes.
  R. H. Howe Jr. & George Shattuck called
in P.M. bringing three skins of Black Ducks
that I wanted to see & a Horned Lark shot
at Ipswich (by Howe) last October which Faxon
has thought might be arenicola. It looked to
me like a pale praticola.
Wea. [Weather] THURSDAY [January] 18 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy, calm, chilly.
  23 [degrees] - 8 A.M.
  30 [degrees] - 1 P.M.
  Sitta carolinensis. - One in garden (a [female] I thought).
  Parus atricapillus 4 [circled] in garden
  Dryobates pubescens [male] at Museum suet.
  Corvus americanus Heard cawing in lindens at 7 A.M.
  Certhia f. americana. - One in garden.
  Regulus satrapa. - " " " [One in garden]
  Ampelis cedrorum " " " [One in garden]
  Spent day in Museum writing on the
notes. No callers.
  Our dining club met at Th[?]er's this evening[.]
All present except Jeffries & Chadbourne.