Cambridge, Mass.
1916.
January 8
[January 8, 1916]

Evening Grosbeaks.
Seen at corner of Brattle & Lowell Sts
Four in our Garden.

  Clear and cold with fresh northerly wind.
  Lovell Thompson, an intelligent boy about twelve years
of age and the son of one of our neighbors, called this noon
to tell me that he had seen three female Evening Grosbeaks
yesterday in white pines growing in Manning Emery's
grounds at corner of Brattle and Lowell Streets. He had
a good view of them, within twenty feet, and seems to
have noted all their characteristic markings accurately.
After looking over my skins of Hesperiphona we had returned
to my study and were approaching its one eastern-facing
window when I first heard a peer call and
then saw three female Evening Grosbeaks, followed closely
by a handsome male, fly low and swiftly across the
garden from the direction of our house towards Brewster Street.
As they passed within twenty feet of the window, in
bright sunlight, I had an unobstructed if only momentary