Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
March.
  March has been an unusually cold and dismal month. The
temperature rose above 50 [degrees] only once (on the 12th when it
reached 64 [degrees]) and above 40 [degrees] only five [sic] [six] times (on the 1,6,13, 16
[delete]and[/delete] 29th & 31st) while it fell below 32 [degrees] on the 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 14,
17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30th, dropping to 16 [degrees] on the
17th and to 18 [degrees] the following morning. There have been but
fifteen clear days in all. Snow fell on the 2nd (four inches [ ),]
4th (a mere dust), 7th (four inches), 14th (a dust), 18th (two
inches), 22nd (a dust), 26th (four inches), 31st (two inches). Heavy rain fell
on the 15, 23 and 28th, light rain on the 4th and 5th. The
ground was covered with snow and the surface frozen more or
less hard up to the 28th. After this date the grass began to
show traces of green in sunny sheltered places. The yellow
crocuses in front of the Museum showed green shoots on the
6th, [delete][?][/delete] closed but deep yellow flower buds on the 14th, four
fully opened flowers on the 16th.
  I have spent the entire month in Cambridge and have taken
but few walks and only one drive. Faxon also has been closely
confined. Lothrop has been out a few times only. Hence the
birds have not been very closely watched in the outlying dis-
tricts. The only arrivals reported to me are as follows:
Bluebird. March 6, two, Arlington (G.M. Allen); flock of twelve
Wellesley, (" The Listener ["] in Boston Transcript).
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