Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1918 [August 6, 1918] Wea [Weather]
92 [degrees] First tree cricket. Fine
Mostly sunny, very warm & humid,
light southerly breezes. Uncomfortable day.
  Garden birds. Fresh lot of migrant
Warblers spent day in Jungle occasionally
visiting lilacs & once assembling where a
hose was playing, to dash back & forth thro [through]
its cooling spray. The flock was made up 
of 4 Mniotiltas [Mniotilta varia], 2 Oven birds & 3 young
Chestnut sided Warblers - all young birds
showing no chestnut. There was also an
unseen Maryland Yellow-throat, singing
thrice very near me, in whispering tones
yet otherwise quite after usual manner of his
kind. Of other local birds I noted 4 Robins,
15+ Bronzed Grackles (on ground in Jungle),
a Kingbird, 2 Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo], a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] (singing
once), several House Sparrows, a
Cedar bird (eating rum cherries, now
ripening), a Swift at sunset.
Shortly after dark heard Tree Cricket,
a brisk-fiddling one.
  Spent day in Museum reading, & writing
letters. No callers. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read David
Copperfield after supper.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1918 [August 7, 1918] Wea [Weather]
82 [degrees] Hel. pinus [Helminthophila pinus] et chrysoptera [Helminthophila chrysoptera] Fair
Forenoon sunny but hazy; afternoon partly
cloudy with heavy thunder shower at sunset. Uncomfortably warm & humid most of day.
Garden birds: a Blue-winged Yellow warbler
with pure yellow wing bars accompanied by
an Oven bird & a Mniotilta [Mniotilta varia] spent forenoon in
Jungle. There could not have been any other 
Warblers here for I went through every nook
& corner of the place again & again. But
at 4 P.M. I found assembled in the lilacs
a flock containing the three birds just noted
& also another Blue winged Yellow, having
white wing bars; a very handsome ad [adult male]
Golden-wing [Golden-winged Warbler]; another Mniotilta [Mniotilta varia]; 2
young Chestnut sided Warblers showing no
chestnut & a [female] Maryland Yellow-throat.
My observation of the Blue-winged Yellow
Warbler is fully described in my journal.
Besides these Warblers I noted 6 Robins
& 2 Cedar birds eating rum cherries, 2
Red-eyes [Red-eyed Vireo], a Chippy [Chipping Sparrow] [in full song], several H. Sparrows [House Sparrows],
a Flicker [in weak song], a Kingbird an Oriole & a Crow.
  Spent much of day following Warblers 
about, the balance in Mus. [Museum] writing letters.
Usual evening reading by E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]