Lexington, Mass.
1916.
January 6
(No 6)
[January 6, 1916]

they [Evening Grosbeak] began leaving the box elder, one or two at a time,
and flitted down the hillside, keeping low among the
dense cedar growths that clothed it and scattering widely
throughout these. Feeling assured that they had finished
their noon meal and were unlikely to reappear soon we
sought ours by returning to Cambridge. While we were
on the hill-top several birds of other species were seen,
including two hen Pheasants, stalking gracefully over the snow
beneath red cedars & very near at hand; two Jays, also in
these cedars; an adult [male] Purple Finch, in the box elder,
one or two Chickadees; a few House Sparrows; and
the rather large Hawk [Cooper's Hawk] already mentioned.
  Thus after so many years of half-expectant
waiting for a sight of living Evening Grosbeaks in
New England has such hope finally been fulfilled.
Its realization has proved in some respects disappointing