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bring their identification up to date, in view of the long period 

 that has elapsed since his notes were published. Included also are 

 notes on a few specimens from northeastern Tennessee collected by 

 A. H. Howell in 1908 and 1910. 



All the data assembled are made available here for the use of 

 those working on the list of birds of the State or occupied in other 

 ways with the birds of Tennessee. I have not attempted to make 

 an exhaustive search of literature for State records, as that is the 

 province of those engaged on a complete report of all the birds that 

 have been found in Tennessee. The notes include some records based 

 on observations where specimens were not taken. 



Tennessee is so located geographically that it covers an area where 

 there is intergradation between a number of forms, so that handling 

 the present collection has been interesting and, in part, difficult. That 

 a region of mergence is covered should be borne in mind in reading 

 the following notes, as otherwise some of the statements may be mis- 

 understood. Assignment of names has been made only after careful 

 consideration of the characters found in the individual specimens. 



Our work was carried on under permits granted by Howell Buntin, 

 Director of Game and Fish, Department of Conservation of Tennessee. 

 We are deeply indebted to Mr. Buntin for his cooperation and to 

 the officers under his direction throughout the State, who were 

 uniformly of assistance. The National Park Service courteously 

 granted permission for work in the Great Smoky Mountains Na- 

 tional Park, where our party had the friendly assistance of J. R. 

 Eakin, superintendent, and of Arthur Stupka, park naturalist. Ar- 

 rangements for investigations in the Unaka National Forest were 

 made through the courtesy of J. B. Spring, district forest ranger at 

 Bristol, and in the Cherokee National Forest through J. W. Cooper, 

 district forest ranger at Cleveland. 



Everywhere in Tennessee our party had friendly reception from 

 citizens and landowners, who aided in many ways, particularly in 

 granting permission to enter on their lands. We are much in- 

 debted for this assistance, without which the work would not have 

 been possible. 



ITINERARY 



The collecting work was planned so as to cover the different sec- 

 tions of Tennessee as completely as possible in the time available. 

 As stated above, the party had a small truck for transportation. 

 Work began in the southwestern corner of the State with head- 

 quarters at Ellendale, not far from Memphis, and covered Shelby 

 and western Fayette Counties during the period from April 8 to 22. 

 Important collections were made in a large area of cypress swamp 

 near Hickory Withe, where permission for hunting over an exten- 



