Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1914 [August 26, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Perfect.
Brilliantly clear with bracingly cool
N.W. [northwest] wind. A rather autumnal-like day.
  In the Garden at 8 A.M. & later - a silent
Veery and faintly chirping Oven-bird, first seen
in lilacs, afterwards in Jungle; a very green & yellow
Tennessee Warbler with unusually pronounced
superciliary stripes, tame, flitting about everywhere,
recognized by its sharp, metallic chirping before
being perfectly seen at close range; a [female] Redstart
and [female] D. virens [Dendroica virens] (perhaps the same noted yesterday)
a Warbler yellowish beneath & with 2 conspicuous
white wing bars, which may have been a [female]
Blackburnian [Blackburnian Warbler] but was not certainly identified
as such; a young Oriole; Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo] singing
rather well at 7 A.M.; an adult [male] Goldfinch
with sweetly calling young; an adult Chippy [Chipping Sparrow]
& a young one with streaked underparts;
3 or 4 Robins, eating rum cherries; a screaming Jay;
a Flicker, shouting feebly; 4 Swifts circling low
about the lindens before & after sunset; 8+
House Sparrows bathing in pond; a Grackle
flying high; altogether no less than 16 species.
  Spent day in Museum. Compiled 3 pp. & composed
one, relating to the Flicker Story & completing it.
C. [Caroline Brewster] copied 3 pp. of it forenoon. Late in
afternoon I began on Red-headed Woodpecker
composing about a page.
Harry & Alice Bartlett supped with us &
spent the evening listening to Victrola music.
Seven or eight new records came by mail
to-day. All are excellent & 2 [?].
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Aug. 27, 1914 [August 27, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Partly sunny, largely cloudy. Cool.
  In the Garden 4 Robins (one singing fairly well
at 1.30 P.M.); an adult male Bay-breasted Warbler with
entire flanks conspicuously chestnut; a Red-eyed Vireo
singing brokenly; 3 gray Purple Finches, in rum
cherry & cedar; House Sparrows; a [female] Rose-breasted
Grosbeak; 2 Orioles, 1 [male] ad [adult], 1 juv [juvenile]; Ad [adult] [male] Goldfinch
& several young; 4 Grackles on lawn; 1 Flicker,
Jays screaming; a silent Wood Pewee, very tame,
perching on dead branches of cherry tree by Museum,
launching out after insects & catching once a large moth.
(This sometime after sunset); 2 Chimney Swifts
flying to & fro long after sunset; in all 13 
species.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Red-headed Woodpecker, adding 2 pp. of
freshly composed matter & thereby finishing
it. Probably I shall write no more before
November.
  Lotty Kettell still here. She & C. [Caroline Brewster] motoring
morning & afternoon. Lizzy Fuller dined with
me on piazza. Mary Deane & her brother
Charley came down at 8.30 to hear Victrola.