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meriting or confirming my own, not undertaking to make the refer- 

 ences compendious save for rare or little known species. 



For a most valuable and interesting series of notes from West 

 Tennessee I am indebted, to my correspondent, Mr. Benjamin C. 

 Miles, of Brownsville, an old resident, acute observer of nature and 

 enthusiastic sportsman. Through his generous efforts I am able 

 to put on a satisfactory basis the status of several birds which must 

 otherwise have been omitted from this list, and can present several 

 facts relating to the history of bird extermination in that part of 

 the Mississippi Valley, which are of great interest. It is my hope 

 that this paper, the first attempt to give the public a resume of the 

 ornithology of a long neglected commonwealth, may inspire her 

 people to a desire for something better in this line of educational work. 



The entire collection of Tennessee birds brought back to the 

 Academy only numbers sixty skins, no attempt being made to 

 secure any but the rarest species, or others for purposes of identifi- 

 cation. The names of species of which there are specimens in this 

 collection are preceded by an asterisk. 



The whole number of species and subspecies given in the follow- 

 ing list is 214. Of these 10 are of doubtful record or identity, 

 although they all belong to the Tennessee fauna. 



Dr. Fox's list records 116 species and subspecies of Tennessee 

 birds. To this add 10 species recorded by Lemoyne, viz. : Accipiier 

 velox, Aquila chrysaetos, Falco peregrinus anatum, Pandion halicetus 

 carolinensis, Syrnium nebulosum, Vireo solitarius alticola, Helmin- 

 thophila chrysoptera, Dendroica ccerulescens, Sylvania canadensis and 

 Parus atricapiUus, and to this again add four, viz.: Ampelis cedro- 

 rum, Dendroica pensylvanica, Dendroica cairulea and Dryobates rillo- 

 sus recorded in Langdon's list, and we have 180 species and sub- 

 species. To this may be added those recorded by Wilson, viz. : 

 Elanoides forficatus, Conurus carolinensis, Ilelminthophila ruficapilla 

 and Helminthophila peregrina, making the total number recorded 

 previous to the present list, 134. 



