Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan.8, 1916 [January 8, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
9 [degrees]  Evening Grosbeaks.
Clear & cold with fresh northerly wind.
  In Garden: a Chickadee, singing freely; an im. [immature]
White-throat [White-throated sparrow]; a Flick [Flicker]; a Jay; a Crow (heard);
about 30 House Sparrows. Also four or five
birds which can hardly have been other than
Evening Grosbeaks. I first heard & then saw them
as they flew swiftly across the open space by
the sun dial towards the head of the garden, one
following another a yard or so apart. The first three
looked exactly like the females seen at Lexington,
the fourth like an adult [male]. All four showed
white conspicuously on wings & tail. My view of 
them was the merest glympse [glimpse], however, being
limited to what could be seen of their fleeting
forms through my study window near which 
I was standing with three boys. One of these,
Lovell Thompson, had been telling me of seeing
3 [females] Grosbeaks of this species in white pines
& I had just shown him my skins to
conform his identification of which he seemed
very confident. Mrs. Cook of Lexington
telephoned this evening to say that the box [page blurred]]
was visited yesterday & to-day by what was
evidently a different flock of Grosbeaks from any
seen there before for they were 7 in number &
2 handsome necks, while the [females] were all
"very gray."
  Spent day in Museum writing letters.

 Lovell Thompson also told me of a Hermit Thrush seen by him in
Mr. Kennedy's grounds on Highland St. Jan. 1 [January 1, 1916] & 2 [January 2, 1916].

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 9, 1916 [January 9, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
6 [degrees], 20 [degrees]  H.W. Henshaw arrives ill.
  Clear & cold with light northerly wind.
  In Garden: Golden-crest Kinglet (heard),
Peabody bird (heard), about 20 House Sparrows,
  Evening Grosbeaks at Lexington. Six
females & two males seen together by
George C. Deane  F.H. Allen & Dr. Tyler.
  I spent most of day in Museum,
writing letters, additional notes on 
Evening Grosbeaks and a report of the
occurrence of a [female] Barrow's Golden-eye at
Wareham, for "The Auk."
  Henry Henshaw left Washington by
Federal Ex. [Express] last evening. It reached Boston
several hours late and he did not get out
to our house until 1.30 P.M. to-day. He
was then too ill with bowell [bowel] trouble &
nausea to think of going out to Bethel
to-morrow as he had intended. We got
him into bed shortly & sent for Dr. Swan
who came this evening & hopes to get him
all right again in a day or two.