Cambridge. Boston
Ther [Thermometer]    MON. MAR.1, 1909 [Monday, March 1, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
15 [15 degrees] 42 [42 degrees]                                                        Clear
Clear & cold with fresh W. [west] wind
  To Boston to see the Whistlers
again. There about the same number
& apparently the very same birds as on
Feb. 27 [February 27] but all were about the bridge
to-day. They were mostly further out 
too. I heard the [paaaf?] six or eight
times, saw one bird talk most had
attitude & one kick up spray but
that was all they did in my presence.
Saw the female with pure yellow bill & 
one of the birds with yellow [barred?] bill.
  Called at Batchy's [Charles Foster Batchelder] at 10.30 & spent
rest of A.M. at Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard]. 
A.C. Bent came at 2.15, Purdie at
4 & B.W.[?] at 5. We looked over
birds & eggs. They dined with me at 6.30.
I read their papers at Nuttall Club
meeting. 22 members present. Robert
Walcott away [though?]
Cambridge.
Ther.  TUES. MAR. 2, 1909 [Tuesday, March 2, 1909] Wea.
44 [44 degrees]                                                            Stormy
Raining most of day.
  Spent day in Museum working
on proof of Golden- eye [Goldeneye] article
and on field notes made in Back
Bay last Saturday. Fred Kennard
came out in P.M. to get my
advice about some bird & egg cases
he wishes to have made.
Charley Lamb called at 8.30
staying an hour. He went 
shooting off Rockport, Mass. [Rockport, Massachusetts] on
February 22 sailing about all day
and killing 6 Purple Sandpipers, 2 
Little Auks & a Black Guillemot. He
saw about 150 Purple Sandpipers,
100 of them in our flock.
Mrs. Emerson of Canaan lunched with us.
Saw a Golden crest [Golden-crowned kinglet] & heard a 
Flicker in the Garden.