Cambridge - Washington.
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] April 12, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear.
A clear, cool day with fresh W. [west] wind.
  Took Colonial Express (9.04) for
Washington, Conn. [Connecticut] fields scarce
greener than those near Boston.
Middle States further advanced.
Forsythia, Benzoin & Cornus florida
in bloom at Philadelphia.
  Saw almost no birds although I
looked for them a good deal. A
Bittern flying over Nepoasett Marshes [Neponset Marshes] 
& 2 Crows near Trenton were the 
only large ones seen. A flock of 
what I took to be Starlings rose
& circled over a pasture near New
Haven. There were 40 or more of them.
Reached Washington at 10 P.M.
(15 m. [minutes] late). Henry Henshaw met
me at station & I went home
with

Washington.
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] April 13, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Cloudy.
  Cloudy & oppressively warm with
occasional light showers. Wind S.W. [Southwest].
Towhee, Chippy, Cardinals & Car. Wrens [Carolina Wrens]
singing near the Ontario at daybreak.
To Smithsonian at 10 A.M. Every one
of the 7 members of Committee on 
Nomenclature there. Ridgway looking
rather ill & not feeling well, he tells us
Spent most of day on gerneral questions
of Nomenclature. Decided to retain 
system of Class. [Classification] used in old A.O.U. [American Ornithologists Union] List.
Also to keep "apostrophe S" in Proper 
names of persons. By a misunderstanding
with the others I lunched alone in kitchens.
Spent evening at Ontario chatting with H.
At least 500 Crow Blackbirds passed
at sunset flying N.E. [Northeast].