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nessee even in the lower levels of the eastern mountains. Folio wmg 

 are records based on specimens : 9 miles north of Waynesboro, Wayne 

 County, May 16; western Lincoln County, 6 miles east of Frank- 

 ewing,' November 3 and 4; 5 miles east of Crossville, May 28 and 29; 

 Rockwood, March 4 and 13, 1885 (taken by W. H. Fox) ; Rogersville, 

 May 1885 (taken by J. W. Rogan) ; 2,000 feet elevation in the Clinch 

 Mountains, 3 miles west of Bean Station, September 30; Holston 

 Mountains and Shady Valley (2,900 feet elevation), June 3, 5, and 6; 

 2,600 feet elevation 4 miles southeast of Cosby, June 28 (adult and 

 immature fully grown) ; 1,800 to 3,000 feet elevation on Big Frog 

 Mountain, 8 miles southwest of Copperhill (adult and grown young), 

 July 9, 10, and 11; 2,400 feet elevation on Beans Mountain 2 miles 

 northeast of Parksville (immature), July 13. 



Specimens taken in the breeding season agree in dorsal color with 

 a series of carolinensis from near Charleston, S. C, the restricted 

 type locality. Fall birds from Bean Station and Frankewing are 

 very faintly darker above than extimus but have the flanks and 

 sides paler. Differences in size between extimus and carolinensis are 

 not of much diagnostic value, as in dimensions the two races are very 

 similar. 



The Tennessee specimens average about the same as those from 

 South Carolina, and their color is such as to allow no hesitance in 

 placing them with carolineTisis. Following are measurements from 

 the series from Tennessee: Males (8 specimens), wing 68.4-64.0 

 (61.3), tail 50.5-55.2 (52.7), culmen from base 8-9.3 (8.6), tarsus 

 15-16.5 (15.5); females (9 specunens), wing 56.8-60.7 (58.3), tail 

 49.1-53 (50.8), culmen from base 7.5-9.3 (8.6), tarsus 14-16 (15) mm. 



Birds from South Carolina (Kershaw County, Aiken, and the 

 vicinity of Charleston) measure as follows: Males (8 specimens), 

 wing 57.8-63.8 (61.0), tail 49.2-54.8=^5 (51.6), culmen from base 

 7.8-9.7 (8.6), tarsus 15.3-17.2 (15.8); females (5 specimens), wing 

 56.7-58.8 (57.5), tail 47.2^9.6 (48.3), culmen from base 8.1-8.7 (8.5), 

 tarsus 14.8-15.8 (15.2) mm. 



Dr. Oberholser recently has named a race of this chickadee from 

 Louisiana,^^ giving as the range the lower Mississippi Valley north 

 to central Alabama and southwestern Kentucky, which includes 

 a part of Tennessee. He states that his new form is "similar to 

 Penthestes carolinensis impiger from Florida, but upper parts paler 

 and more grayish. Like Penthestes carolinensis carolinensis but 

 decidedly smaller. 



*^ Seven specimens. 



»» Penthestes carolinensis guilloti Oberholser, Dept. Cons. State of Louisiana Bull. 28, 

 1938, p. 425 (Belair, La.). 



