Cambridge - Lexington.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 24, 1916 [January 24, 1916] Wea [Weather] Perfect.
30 [degrees], 42 [degrees] Evening Grosbeaks.
  Brilliantly clear with light westerly breeze &
dry, cool air. Most like a day in early spring.
  In Garden: a Peabody bird singing rather
freely at sunset, a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] calling not 
long after sunrise.
  Started for Lexington by trolley car at
9.15. Dr. Tyler joined me by chance as I
was ascending road leading to haunt
of Evening Grosbeaks. We found them in
flowering apple close to Mrs. Cooke's house,
whence they soon flew off into some cedars
beneath which they fed & hopped about
over ground for 20 or more minutes,
finally returning to apple tree again &
feasting on seeds extracted from its fruit
in same manner as by Pine Grosbeaks.
  The flock to-day numbered 2 [males] 5 [females].
Hitherto it has usually had [2 males] 6 [females].
The males both light colored with much
bright yellow & evidently fully adult.
  All the members of the flock remarkably
silent birds uttering only a low Crossbill-like
chatter & that but rarely. Several members
of Brookline Bird Club watching them with
us. Miss Cooke also appeared. She invited me
into her house & showed me an interesting
reprint of ancient Italian M.S. [manuscript] with
figures of birds. I got home at 12.40.

Spent P.M. in Museum picking out a lot of birds to send to 
Ridgway for examination.

Cambridge - Concord.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1916 [January 25, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fair
  Sunny & overcast by turns. Very mild.
Light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  In Garden: 2 im. [immature] White-throats [White-throated Sparrows], 2 Jays &
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] seen about 9 A.M.; a Chickadee,
a [male] Red-bellied Nuthatch [Red-breasted Nuthatch] & 2 Golden crested
Kinglets [Golden-crowned Kinglets] together in willows by Museum
gate at 4 P.M.
  Concord Farm: 3 Chickadees [in a flock], 1 Junco, 
2 Crows [in a flock], 1 Partridge.
  Leaving home at 10.15 Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] & I motored
to Concord via Trapelo Road, Lexington & 
Carlisle Bridge. Roads deep rutted & frozen in 
places. Open country quite bare. Some
snow in woods. River frozen over solid.
  Reached Farm about 11.30. Burbank away,
Monson & 2 men working on well which
is more than half finished. After lunch
went to Birch Field with George. He has
cut about 15 cords of birch.
  Found several purple ladies delight [lady's-delight] blossoms
out in front of farm house, one quite perfect.
  Motored back via Bedford, Lexington &
Arlington, reaching home at 4 P.M.

E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to Springfield this P.M. Miss Henders has replaced her.
C. [Caroline] decidedly better of her cold to-day.