Cambridge, Mass.
1914.
January 31
(No 2)
[January 31, 1914]

although at first given to flying off whenever the
door was opened or shut. At about 6 o'clock to-night I
saw him dimly against the sky in his usual place
although it was raining heavily and overflow water
from a clogged guttar [gutter] above deluging his retreat
every half minute or so. Of late he has spent his days
elsewhere than within our grounds & probably
at the rear of our old house, 149 Brattle Street, where
Professor F. W. Putnam is said to have been feeding
him for two weeks or more. We have had Indian
meal spread for him on a tray among the lilacs
and something has been eating it while once I saw
him in the early morning within a yard of it.
He is a handsome bird, apparently in vigorous
condition and full plumage. He will not permit
very close approach in the day time.