Concord - Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Aug. [August] 8, 1910 Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Sunny but hazy. Cool with light
easterly wind.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I returned to
Cambridge by 8.14 train. As we
were crossing the marsh we started
a young Va. Rail [Virginia Rail] that looked wholly 
black. It rose from the edge of
the boat canal fully 30 yards ahead
of us & flew about 100 yds. [100 yards] very swiftly
with legs drawn up behind.
  C. [Caroline] & I work all forenoon in Museum.
I wrote most of text for Horned
Greebe [Horned Grebe], she copied my journal
notes on Whistler courtship.
  In afternoon I wrote up some
recent bird notes, had a long nap
& worked about an hour pruning
the lilacs & cutting out a vista.
An Oven Bird & a Redstart in Garden.
Ten or a dozen Robins. Swifts at evening.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read after supper.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. AUG. 9, 1910 [Tuesday, August 9, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Clear & cool with light E. [east] wind.
  I worked all day at my writing
in the Museum and C. [Caroline] through
the forenoon with her type writing.
I devoted myself to the Horned
Greebe [Horned Grebe], finishing the revision of
journal extracts regarding it
I had a little time before breakfast
and again at evening, in the 
Garden. There were two Oven birds,
and a Redstart there besides the
usual [?] flock of Robins (mostly
speckled young) a Red-eye and a
Cedar bird [cedar waxwing] or two. A Goldfinch sang
in the jungle & I saw a female eating
some flower seeds. Heard Cicadas
many times. Tree Crickets in full song
  Called on Walter &  Margie Deane this
evening (7.30-9). They were in a railway
accident in Hoosack Tunnel [Hoosac Tunnel] last Saturday.