Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1918 [December 4, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Dark cloudy with drizzling rain
overnight & early morning & a heavy
downpour at evening.
  Garden birds. Chickadees, House Sparrows
& Crows, several of each, all near together 
in Jungle at 9 A.M  There were, I thought,
at least five Chickadees, keeping high 
in the trees. Yesterday I found feathered
remains of one, including a portion of a wing
with secondaries still attached, scattered along
the flagging walk between our house & Brattle
Street. These fragments suggested Shrike work
but it may have been done by Blackwell's
black cat. 
  Spent day in Museum writing letters.
For first time since Sept. 5 [September 5, 1918] C [Caroline Brewster] paid a
visit to the house this afternoon (2.15-4.15.)
She took Danny back to Ware Hall &
I motored down with them walking 
home after dark in pouring rain.
Now E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] has just finished the
usual evening reading ("David Copperfield" still)

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 5, 1918 [December 5, 1918] Wea [Weather]
 30 [degrees] max. [maximum] Fair
  Mostly sunny with chill air but not
much wind. Ground once more quite
free from frost save on the surface
which stiffened over night to thaw under
the sun's rays at noon. Grass still
very green.
  Garden birds. Only Chickadee
pecking at last year's suet on ground
beneath my study window.
  Entire day spent in Museum.
Kennard [Frederic Hedge Kennard] with me most of forenoon
looking at eggs, egg boxes etc. He is 
troubled over a fungoid disfigurement of
the valuable collection of eggs which he
& Bent bought of the Estate of Fred
Spaulding of Lancaster N.H. [Lancaster, New Hampshire]. It has
attacked very many specimens & ruined
some of the choicest sets.
  John Nichols talked with me by telephone
in P.M. from somewhere in Boston.
Lawrence brought load of birch fr. [from] Concord.
Usual evening reading by E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] in hall.
Telephone talk with C. [Caroline Brewster] at 4.30 P.M.