Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 20, 1916 [January 20, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with light intermittent
snowfall. Mild but chilly.
  In Garden: A Chickadee, [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
at suet, Crow on wing, a dozen 
or more House Sparrows flitting 
to and fro.
  Spent day in Museum working
mostly at cataloging & labeling
miscellaneous skins & sets of eggs.
This duty has been somewhat
neglected of late years and as a
result the precise history of several
rare specimens has been partly
forgotten or nearly so. Hence it is
most desirable to enter such essential
dates as can still be remembered or
ascertained before it is too late.
  Bradford Scudder called in mid-
P.M. to bid me good bye. He has
resigned from Fish & Game Ass. [Fish & Game Association] & taken
a place in Conn. [Connecticut] with Mr. E.S. [Converse?].
  C. [Caroline] confined to room by headaches.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to me 7.30 - 9 P.M.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 21, 1916 [January 21, 1916] Wea [Weather]
40 [degrees], 48 [degrees] Fair.
  Light-cloudy with occasional brief
gleams of sunshine. Almost or quite windless.
Very warm. Typical January thaw.
Snow & ice melting fast.
  In Garden: 3 Peabody birds, all essentially
alike and so dull colored as to be
distiguishable not without difficulty
from the House Sparrow with which
they were feeding on seed that I put
out for them under the lilacs.
This happened about 9.30 A.M. just
after I had fed the Pigeons. By
confining their grain to a space no
larger than they cover while crowding
together to eat it I prevent the House 
Sparrows from getting more than a few
stray kernels of it
  At 9.30 there were a [male] Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker] & a [male]
Downy [Downy Woodpecker] in Jungle & a [male] Flicker eating 
Parkman apples.
  I worked in Museum all day
arranging & cataloging birds & eggs.
Batchelder & Bangs with me all forenoon
looking up Newfoundland skins.