Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Feb. 23, 1914 [February 23, 1914] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees], 16 [degrees], 10 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light
northerly wind.
  A Chickadee & 2 Jays & a Crow
were the only birds that visited
our place to-day.
  Spent forenoon in revising 
of the Barred Owl story for
C. [Caroline Brewster] to copy & after they were
were copied by her, she working
as usual from 9.30 to 1.
In the afternoon I composed
two pages of fresh matter relating
chiefly to the various vocal
utterances of the Barred Owl.
Also rewrote a short note for
Bird Lore relating to the 
voice of the Tinamou and
blocked out roughly a week
or two ago.
  Miss Balch at lunch. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] took
4 P. M. train from Springfield.
C. read Ayala to me this evening.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1914 [Feburary 24, 1914] Wea [Weather]
0 [degrees], 16 [degrees], 10 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with little or no wind.
  From the museum window at 10 A.M.
I saw 18 Lesser Redpolls and 3 Goldfinches
hopping about actively over the surface of
deep snow beneath a gray birch at edge
of Jungle. They were feeding on birch seeds
which they must have previously shaken
down from the tree & which gave the
snow a brownish tinge. Part of the
flock resorted every now & then to the
birch to feed there awhile. They all
remained through the forenoon. Only one
of the Redpolls was a rosy-breasted [male].
  A Tree Sparrow, which may have passed
unnoticed in the flock before noon, was
feeding there quite alone all the afternoon.
No one of these three species has been noted
before, this year, in our grounds.
  I worked all day on Barred Owl story,
composing 2 pp. [pages]. Galloupe came out at 3
with revised copy of Inc. Tax return [Income Tax return] for me
to sign, a mistake having been made
with the first. I shall have to pay
Uncle Sam $49. C [Caroline Brewster] finished Ayala this evening.