Jan'y 13 
(no 2)                                                                          
Waverley & Belmont, Mass.
  I next drove on through Marsh Stand seeing
nothing until we came to Rock Meadow where
there were two crows sitting in the top of a tall
elm. Thence to Waverley and home by way of
the Payson Place.  Opposite the upper mill pond
in Waverley a new street has been cut. It runs
up over the hill to I know not where. Around
the lower pond the undergrowth has been trimmed
out and has piled in heaps under the tree,
a bad sight.
  Four Grosbeaks which flew across the road and
into the spruces on the Payson place and a
flock of about thirty Goldfinches flying over
Mt. Auburn were all the birds seen on the
way home.
Cambridge
  About a dozen Grosbeaks spent the afternoon
feeding on the fruit of a flowering apple tree in
my garden. Denton made a noose of fine
copper wire and caught one of them with it.
I afterwards tried it and captured two more
(See notes under Pinicola)