Cambridge
Thanksgiving Day
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. NOV. 24, 1910 [Thursday, November 24, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Ruby-Crown Kinglet.  Fine.
Clear & mild with little or no wind.
Ground free from frost, lawns still green.
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3 Fox Sparrows &
8 Juncos, in the Garden. Heard the Ruby-
crown chatter twice & then saw the bird
in old red cedar at rear of our house (See Journal)
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing letters.
Fifteen of us sat down to dinner at 1.30.
Not long after it we danced a Va. reel [Virginia reel] in front
hall C. [Caroline] playing the piano. Most of our
guests stayed until about sunset. They were
Geo. V. Leverett [George V. Leverett], Purdie [Henry A. Purdie],Frank Manning & 
Margaret, Jennie & Emily Chapman, Mary &
[Lizzie?] Fuller, Julia Mansfield, Miss Holman
& Miss Harkness (from Lancaster) Miss Swasey
& Miss Eastwood. Purdie & Leverett stayed 
on after the others had gone, in Museum.
C. read aloud to Miss Swasey & me
in the hall this evening.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. NOV. 25, 1910 [Friday, November 25, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Examine Bitterns in Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology.]  Stormy
Cloudy with light N.E. [northeast] wind & fine
drizzling rain. A raw & gloomy day.
  Birds getting scarce in the Garden. All
I could find there to-day were 2 Juncos
2 Fox Sparrows & 2 Blue Jays. Heard
a Downy [downy woodpecker] on Garden Street.
  Billcliffe came this morning to plan
for some work in Museum. I talked
with him about an hour & wrote a
few letters. At 11 A.M. I started for
Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] where I saw
Sam Henshaw, Outram Bangs, Barbour
& Bigelow. Got the data for my
Museum Report which I wrote after my 
return, finishing it by five o'clock & 
mailing it to Henshaw. While at the
Museum I looked over Bitterns in coll. [collection] there.
  Two specimens of B.pinnatus [Botaurus pinnatus] had large & very
white concealed ruffs. I found them also in
the [Austrasian?] species but not in B. [Botaurus] stellaris
Of the latter we have no fully [edited?] notes
however. C. [Caroline] read aloud this evening.
