PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 86 Washington : 1939 No. 3050 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENNESSEE 



By Alexander Wetmoee 



In continuation of studies begun last year in the east-central group 

 of Statey, to secure needed material in birds and mammals for the 

 United States National Museum, we conducted field work through 

 the season of 1937 in the State of Tennessee. As in West Virginia 

 in 1936, W. M. Perrygo of the National Museum was in charge of 

 the field party; Carleton Lingebach assisted during the spring and 

 Henry R. Schaefer during the fall. Traveling in a small truck, the 

 party left Washington on April 3 and continued in the field until 

 July 17, when work was terminated for the summer. In fall field 

 work began on September 9 and continued to November 11. 



The following account presents in sufficient detail the results of 

 studies of the birds obtained. A similar statement^ covering the 

 mammals has been prepared by Dr. Remington Kellogg, assistant 

 curator of mammals in the United States National Museum. 



In addition to remarks on the specimens obtained in 1937, I have 

 included throughout this report reference to other skins from Ten- 

 nessee in the National Museum so far as these have come to attention. 

 Most of these were collected by W. H. Fox near Chattanooga and 

 on Lookout Mountain in 1882 and near Rockwood in Roane County 

 in the spring seasons of 1884 and 1885. Fox published only a few 

 records from the Lookout Mountain area,^ but he gave a complete 

 list of hi? observations in the latter region.^ It has seemed desirable 

 to include his specimens so far as they have been found in order to 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, no. 3051. 



a Stray notes from Lookout Mountain, Tenn. Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1882, pp. 191-192. 

 »List of birds found in Roane County, Tennessee, during April, 1884, and March and 

 April, 1885. Auk, 1886, pp. 315-320 ; 1887, p. 164. 



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