Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1914 [February 17, 1914] Wea [Weather]
8 [degrees] Fine
Clear, cold, calm with dry bracing
air - like that of a winter day at Bethel.
  A Jay, a Crow & a Hairy Woodpecker
seen in the Garden.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Long-eared Owl Story. Added 3 pp.
compiled from journal entries relating
to behavior of birds with young as
observed in Belmont in June, 1874,
& in Concord in June 1886. This
matter is brought in to supplement
observations made at Lake Umbagog
on which it throws needed light.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] on snow-shoes this morning
& tramped about for half an hour
through the Garden & Jungle while I
stood on the plant walk watching her.
We had a 7 o'clock dinner a "bunch"
pf parsons - Dr. & Mrs. Hodges, Fred &
Mrs. Allen, Robert Walker & his wife.
They departed between 9.30 & 10.15.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1914 [February 18, 1914] Wea [Weather]
4 [degrees], 34 [degrees] Fair
Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy.
Calm. Early morning cold. Fine
sleighing. Automobiles mostly
laid aside.
  A Jay & a Crow were the only birds
that I noticed about the place.
The Brown Thrasher was seen by
Gilbert in the lilacs early in the
forenoon. Percy saw it shortly
before sunset at first in a hawthorn
apparently eating a bit of bread, then
flying with the pine grove in the 
Jungle where, I suspect, it
was intending to spend the night.
Perhaps it has roosted there regularly
when not in the vine on the Museum.
  At my desk in Museum all day.
Added two pages to Long-eared, &
two to Short-eared, Owl story, all
this matter being compiled from journal.
C. [Caroline Brewster] went to day show this forenoon.
I wanted to but could not leave my 
work. C. & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read to me this eve.