Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]   Sunday, Jan. 30, 1916 [January 30, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees], 36 [degrees] Dull.
Cloudy, calm, mild, with light
rain in late P.M.
  In Garden (9.30 A.M.) [male] and [female] White breast [-breasted]
Nuthatch together at suet in catalapa [catalpa];
[male] Red-bellied Nuthatch [Red-breasted Nuthatch] nearby at same
time on board walk; an adult
Peabody bird and 3 immature ones
in shrubbery rear of house, one of
them singing rather loudly every
now and then. Usual flock of 
House Sparrows. One Blue Jay.
  Spent much of day in Museum
writing letters & cheques, looking over 
& marking nursery catalogues, etc.
Miss Mary Allen & her niece
Miss Gage dined with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] ,
& Miss Henders & me. C.[Caroline] still
confined to her room upstairs
although decidedly stronger to-day.
I played Victrola awhile after
both dinner & supper.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]   Monday, Jan. 31, 1916 [January 31, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
50 [degrees] Dull.
Cloudy with fine, dissolving rain
at intervals. Very warm again
- especially in our furnace-heated
houses wherin [wherein] the most smothered
fires give too much heat yet cannot
be extinguished.
  In Garden: 2 White-throats [White-throated Sparrows], 2 Jays,
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] (heard), a Flicker (heard),
a dozen or more House Sparrows.
  One of the Jays began singing
sotto voce about 11 A.M. and kept
it up at intervals for several
minutes. I have not heard this song 
before since last winter or spring. The
bird seemed very near my study
window & was doubtless among the
rhododendrons just outside it.
  The White-throated Sparrows went to
roost at evening in honeysuckle vine by
Museum door. Like the Brown Thrasher
who frequented it similarly several winters 
ago they permitted me to pass within two
feet of them without leaving. I have heard
them chirping there for several evenings past.
  Spent day in Museum doing little
except write a short letter.