Cambridge, Mass.
1893 
April 14
  A soft, warm April day the sun peeping out at
intervals through [delete]the[/delete] thin clouds; a light S.W. wind.
  After breakfast drove with C. around Mt. Auburn and
as far as the Adams place on the Watertown road. The
grass was green on sunny exposure and the roads dry.
We saw and heard a good many birds but there was
no indication of any considerable migration.
  A Goldfinch was singing on the Lowell plain, not the                                
warbling sotto voce song usually heard at this season but
the true midsummer song, loud and clearly cut as to
all its phrases.
[margin]Goldfinch[/margin]
  On French's hill in E. Watertown a Pine Warbler was trilling                                  
at short, regular intervals and a Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum),
a Ruby-crowned and a Golden-crested Knight all singing
together in one tree (a red cedar) their notes mingling in a
strange and decidedly inharmonious medley.
[margin]Birds singing
on French's
Hill[/margin]
  I heard two Flickers shouting, one near the little pond                                     
behind Mt. Auburn, the other on the Adams land.
[margin]Flickers[/margin]
  Two Grass Finches were also piping on the Adams place.  
[margin]Grass Finches[/margin]                            
  Chipping Sparrows were numerous, generally distributed,                              
and singly freely. I heard one in our garden. They
apparently arrived in force last night.
[margin]General arrival
of Chipping 
Sparrows.[/margin]
  The absence of Purple Finches & Meadow Larks was a                                   
marked feature & I heard no Bluebirds & but one Song Sparrow.
[margin]Absence of
Purple Finches
& Meadow Larks[/margin]