Cambridge, Mass.
1916
January 8
(No 2)
[January 8, 1916]

Evening Grosbeaks in our Garden.

view of them and hence felt reasonably sure of the
correctness of the identification. Their white wing and
tail markings showed conspicuously as did the rich seal
brown coloring of the male bird, while several House 
Sparrows that accompanied, or rather trailed after, them
furnished a good basis for size comparison.
Young Thompson, being unfortunately behind me, had only
the merest glimpse of them.

At Lexington

  Mrs. Cook of Lexington telephoned this evening to
say that the box elder there was visited both yesterday
and to-day by a flock of Grosbeaks evidently not the
same individually [individuals] as those frequenting it heretofore for on 
both these later occasions there were seven birds of which two
were males and five females while the latter are all
duller and grayer colored than any previously observed.