NOTES OK THE BIRDS OF TENNESSEE WETMORE 183 



PANDION HALIAETUS CAROLINENSIS: Osprey 



An osprey was seen on Reel foot Lake on October 7 and another 3 

 miles north of Waynesboro on May 12. 



Family FALCONIDAE 



FALCO PEREGRINUS ANATUM Bonaparte: Duck Hawk 



Near Walnut Lodge on Reelfoot Lake, October 14, a duck hawk 

 swooped repeatedly at a barred owl. In the Great Smoky Mountains 

 one was recorded on Mount Guyot at 6,300 feet on June 29 and 

 another on Inadu Knob at 5,700 feet on June 30. One was noted 

 at 6,200 feet on Eoan Mountain, September 16. 



FALCO SPARVERIUS SPARVERIUS Linnaeus: Eastern Sparrow Hawk 



The only sparrow hawk obtained was a male collected at an eleva- 

 tion of 2,150 feet on Beans Mountain, 2^/2 miles northeast of Parks- 

 ville, Polk County, on July 13, 1937. This bird has the wing 183, 

 tail 109.5, culmen from cere 12.5, and tarsus 37 mm. The breast is 

 nearly immaculate, but there are scattered spots over the abdomen. 

 There is also in the National Museum a female, taken by W. H. Fox 

 on Lookout Mountain, March 31, 1882, that held an egg ready to be 

 laid. This bird has the following measurements: Wing 183, tail 

 114, culmen from cere 13.5, tarsus 34.4 mm. In short tail and fine 

 streaking of under surface this bird shows some approach to paulus 

 but is considered to represent sparverius. 



Interesting sight records by Perrygo include a sparrow hawk at 

 3,700 feet in the Great Smoky Mountains, June 21; two on Big 

 Frog Mountain near Copperhill, July 8; and others on Roan Moun- 

 tain at 5,900 feet on September 12 and at 5,500 feet on September 13. 



Family TETRAONIDAE 



BONASA UMBELLUS TOGATA (Linnaeus): Canada Ruffed Grouse 



Three specimens taken include one from Shady Valley, June 4 ; one 

 from 6,300 feet elevation on Roan Mountain, September 25 ; and one 

 from 6,600 feet on Mount Guyot in the Great Smoky Mountains, 

 June 21. All these display the heavily barred under parts and the 

 amount of brown in the under tail coverts that characterize this 

 race.® 



« See Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 84, 1937, pp. 406-407. 

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