Birds in our Garden, Cambridge [Cambridge, Massachusetts]
DECEMBER [December, 1916].

1 Goldcrest [Golden-crowned Kinglet] December 1: 1; December 10: hd. [heard]; December 17: hd. [heard]
2. Blue Jay December 1: 4; December 4: 2; December 7: hd. [heard]; December 8: 1 [in flight]; December 9: hd. [heard]; December 12: hd. [heard]; December 13: hd. [heard];
December 20: hd. [heard]; December 21: 1; December 22: 1; December 27: 1
3 House Sp. [House Sparrow] December 1: 30+; December 2: 20+; December 3: 25+; December 4: 10+; December 5: 6+; December 7: 6; December 11: sev. [several]; December 12: sev. [several]; December 13: 8+; December 14: 6+;
   December 17: 40+ at seed; December 19: 10+; December 20: 8; December 22: 8+; December 23: 10+; December 27: 6; December 28: 12; December 29: 6; December 30: [?]; December 31: 8
4. White throat Sp. [White-throated Sparrow] December 2: 1 ad. [adult]; December 3: hd. [heard]; December 4: hd. [heard]; December 7: 1 ad. [adult]; December 13: hd. [heard]; December 15: 1 ad. [adult] eating nightshade berries; December 17: 1 ad.
 [adult] at millet; December 22:  hd. [heard] at eve. [evening]; December 23: hd. [heard]; December 26: hd. [heard] at eve [evening]; December 27: 1; December 29: hd. [heard]; December 30: 1 im. [immature]; December 31: 1 im. [immature]
5 Junco December 2: 4 [in a flock]; December 3: 2; December 4: 2; December 5: hd. [heard]; December 8: 3 [males] [in a flock]; December 10: 3 [males] [in a flock]; December 13: 2; December 29: [female] in rhododendrons by study window, at sunset;
 December 31: [1 male 2 females] eating [?] seeds
6 Crow December 3: sev. [several] [in flight]; December 4: 2 on lawn; December 5: hd. [heard]; December 8: 6 on lawn; December 10:  3 [in flight]; December 13: hd. [heard]; December 17: 3 [in flight]
7 Chickadee December 4: 1; December 7: 2 [in a flock]; December 10: 4 [in a flock]; December 11: hd. [heard]; December 12: hd. [heard]; December 13: hd. [heard]; December 14: hd. [heard]; December 15: 1 at suet; December 16: 1 [at suet];
 December 17: 1 [at suet]; December 19: hd. [heard]; December 23: 1; December 27: 1; December 29: 1; December 30: 1 at suet; December 31:1
8 Downy W. [Downy Woodpecker] December 4: [female]; December 7: hd. [heard]; December 8: hd. [heard]; December 9: hd. [heard]; December 10: 1; December 11: 1; December 13: h'd. [heard]; December 15: h'd. [heard]; December 18: hd. [heard]
9 White Br. Nuthatch [White-breasted Nuthatch] December 5: 1 heard in lindens
10 Flicker December 9: 1 in elm & pursued thence by a female Sparrow Hawk; December 21: 1; December 23: [male] eating P. [Parkman] apples; December 27: [male] [eating Parkman apples]; December 29: Pear tree freshly barked,
 evidently by Flicker; December 30: [male] in barked pear tree 
11 Sparrow Hawk December 9: [female] chased Flicker over lawn & then perched awhile in big horse chestnut.
12 Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker] December 17: [male] in Catalapa [Catalpa] by Mus. [Museum]
13 Purple Finch December 17: 2 gray, eating Parkman apples; December 18: 1 gray [eating Parkman apples]; December 20: 2 [gray] [eating Parkman apples]; December 31: 6 gray birds, in a flock, in red cedar by Museum gate
14 Redpoll December 26: flight call heard overhead in Hubbard Park.