NOTES OK THE BIRDS OF TENNESSEE — WETMORE 209 



^'■Measurements. — Adult male: wing, 57-61 (average, 58.9) mm.; 

 tail, 48-54.3 (50.5) ; exposed culmen, 6.8-7.5 (7.1) ; tarsus, 16; middle 

 toe without claw, 9.5-11 (9.9). Adult female: wing, 53-59 (56.6); 

 tail, 46.5-52 (48.5) ; exposed culmen, 6.5-7.5 (7.2) ; tarsus, 15-16.5 

 (15.6) ; middle toe without claw, 9-10 (9.7)." 



Without going into the question of the validity of guilloti in the 

 southern part of its assigned range, I consider the Carolina chicka- 

 dees from Tennessee to be identified subspecifically as carolineiisis 

 and extimus according to the data presented under the present and 

 the following headings. 



PENTHESTES CAROLINENSIS EXTIMUS Todd and Sutton: Northern 



Carolina Chickadee 



In western Tennessee the northern race of this chickadee extends 

 across the State from north to south as indicated by the following 

 records based on specimens : Hickory Withe, April 10 and 16 ; Keel- 

 foot Lake, April 29 ; Samburg, Obion County, October 11 ; Cumber- 

 land Kiver 2 miles west of Indian Mound, October 27 ; and Cumber- 

 land Kiver 7 miles north of Dover, October 30. 



These skins are identical in every way with specimens typical of 

 extimus from West Virginia and elsewhere in the range of this race. 

 Measurements of the Tennessee series are as follows: Males (6 speci- 

 mens), wing 59.7-64.3 (62.4), tail 51.5-56.7 (53.9), culmen from base 

 8.3-9.1 (8.7), tarsus 15.1-16.5 (16.0); females (2 specimens) wing 

 56.2-59.4 (57.8), tail 51.5, culmen from base 8-8.5 (8.2), tarsus 15-16.2 

 (15.6) mm. 



BAEOLOPHUS BICOLOR (Linnaeus): Tufted Titmouse 



This species is common throughout Tennessee except in the higher 

 elevations of the mountains along the eastern border. Kecords in the 

 collection are as follows: Hickory Withe, April 9 and 10; Reelfoot 

 Lake, April 28; Waynesboro, May 11 and 12; Pulaski, November 1 

 and 2; Chattanooga, March 13, 1882 (W. H. Fox) ; Lookout Moun- 

 tain, March 24, 1882 (W. H. Fox) ; Crossville, May 26; Eockwood, 

 April 8 and 19, 1884, and March 24, 1885 (W. H. Fox) ; 2,000 feet 

 elevation in the Clinch Mountains, 3 miles west of Bean Station, Sep- 

 tember 30 ; 2,900 to 3,300 feet in the Holston Mountains, and Shady 

 Valley, June 2, 5, and 12; 5,000 feet elevation on Roan Mountain, 

 September 23; 1,800 feet elevation on Big Frog Mountain, 8 miles 

 southwest of Copperhill, July 12. 



In examining this Tennessee material I have made careful compari- 

 son again of the series in the National Museum to find that in fall 

 and winter birds from South Carolina (Kershaw County and Charles- 

 ton and vicinity) the brownish wash on the back is slightly duller 



