Cambridge,
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 2, 1914 [January 2, 1914] Wea [Weather]
15 [degrees] Dull.
Another drearily cloudy and
piercingly cold day without wind,
however.
  At least 2 Blue Jays screaming in
the Jungle shortly after dinner, perhaps
at a big black cat skulking there.
I saw not [no] other bird about the place
but Gilbert found a Brown Creeper lying
dead on the sidewalk under the big
elms in front of the Almy house.
The cause of its death seems obscure
for it is in plump condition &
without trace of external injury.
  Spent entire day in Museum working
ceaselessly on Red-shouldered Hawk
story and adding 2 M.S. pp. [manuscript pages] to the
one written yesterday, thereby completing
the brief account of my meagre
experience with the bird in the 
Umbagog Region.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] in town all day & at her Bee this
evening. I lunched with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] &
have just dined alone - in the "Den."

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 3, 1914 [January 3, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Coninuted sunless, windless, chillsome
weather, less cold than that of yesterday.
  Certainly 6, and I thought 7, Chickadees
flitting through lilacs & visiting suet in
catalopa [catalpa], about 9 A.M. A Flicker calling
a little later. Two Golden-crest Kinglets
& one Chickadee close to my study window
at 2 P.M.
  Spent day in Museum working at 
my accustomed task. Revised & in
places rewrote part of Red-shouldered Hawk 
story & then began on Broad-winged 
Hawk writing 3 pp. [pages] composed without
using any matter taken from the journal
bodily. This was for me a rather good 
day's work. Kept at it ceaselessly up
to 7 P.M., getting in eight hours in all
and feeling but a trifle tired when
I came in to dinner.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] spent most of day in town. She
& E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud from Trollope's
"He Knew He Was Right" after dinner.