Cambridge
Ther. [thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] JAN. 12, 1909 [January 12, 1909] Wea. [weather] 
A dark, gloomy day with 
incessant rain changing to snow 
at nightfall the ground snow covered 
to a depth of an inch or more by
bed time. 
  Spent day in Museum 
working hard (for nearly nine hours) 
on Barrow's Golden-eye article. No
callers before 8 P.M. when John 
Hardy came bringing a mounted
 Widgeon, a market bird killed
 at Seabrook, N.H. [Seabrook, New Hampshire] last autumn.
  We worked it out by aid of skins
& books & decided finally that it
 was a young [male] Mareca penelope.
Greatly to my surprise I found in my
collection labeled as M. americana [Mareca americana], what
seems to be an adult [male] penelope in
eclipse plumage from Rhode Island.
3 [in a flock] Chickadees came to the suet to-day.
I saw nothing else except 2 or 3 Crows

Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] JAN.13, 1909 [January 13, 1909] Wea. [weather]
10 [degrees]
Clear & cold with light N. [north] wind,
everything encrusted in icy snow
not more than an inch in depth.
  Spent forenoon in Museum
Comparative Zoology [Museum of Comparative Zoologu] where I saw
Henshaw & Roland Thaxter. The
latter spent nearly an hour with
me going over the Thaxter collection
of skins trying to supply data
for those that are not labeled.
Some he remembered all about ,
concerning others he was in more or less [?]
Walked home to lunch & went in 
town at 3.30 to attend meeting of 
Audubon Society Directors. Present
Mrs. Elliot, Mrs. Bolles, Mr. & Mrs. Robbin's,
Miss Kimball, Miss Richards, Hoffman,
Forbush & Harry Bigelow. Nothing of much
importance dealt with. Got home at 6.
Back Bay Basin all frozen over except over space
at mouth of Stony Brook when a lot of Ducks were.
A Flicker & a Chickadee heard in the Garden
the Chickadee whistling phoebee