NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENNESSEE WETMORE 189 



Family TROCHILIDAE 



ARCHILOCHUS COLUBRIS (Linnaeus): Ruby-throated Hummingbird 



The first of the season was recorded at Hickory Withe on April 

 21. Two females were taken in Shady Valley on June 5 and 10. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE 



MEGACERYLE ALCYON ALCYON (Linnaeus) : Eastern Belted Kingfisher 



Observed at the following places: Hickory Withe, April 15; Reel- 

 foot Lake, April 24 to May 6 and October 11 and 14; Beech Creek, 

 12 miles northwest of Waynesboro, May 13; Buffalo River, 4 miles 

 east of Flat Woods, May 17 ; Pulaski, November 1. 



Family PICIDAE 

 COLAPTES AURATUS AURATUS (Linnaeus): Southern Flicker 



The southern race of the flicker, marked by smaller size, is found 

 through the greater part of the State, ranging east at least as far as 

 Crossville and in the southeast to Beans Mountain. Records of 

 breeding birds assigned to this form (with the wing measurements 

 given in millimeters in parentheses) are as follows: Frayser, 4 miles 

 east of Memphis, April 8, female (148.6) ; Hickory Withe, April 9, 

 female (146) ; 4 miles west of Hornbeak, Obion County, May 3, male 

 (149), female (148.2) ; 8 miles north of Waynesboro, May 13, female 

 (151, a little larger than the average) ; T miles southwest of Cross- 

 ville, May 26, two males (148, 150.5). 



The flickers of the eastern mountain section are somewhat puzzling. 

 Those of Shady Valley are definitely the northern form luteus^ as is 

 shown in the following account of that form. However, an adult 

 male taken at 5,000 feet elevation on Cosby Knob in the Great Smoky 

 Mountains June 19, in fresh plumage with the wing not worn, meas- 

 ures only 149 mm. On the basis of size it is to be called auratus and 

 may be either a specimen from a point where intergradation between 

 the two birds begins or a wanderer from the nearby lowlands. In 

 view of the strong flights made by flickers through mountain areas, 

 the latter is possible. More specimens are needed from the Great 

 Smoky Mountain area to determine the status of the bird in that sec- 

 tion. A male taken on July 14 at 1,800 feet on Beans Mountain in the 

 southeastern section of the State measures 148.5 mm. This mountain 

 does not rise to high elevation. On the higher mass of Big Frog 

 Mountain a little farther south and east the flicker population seems 

 distinctly mixed, as in two females taken at 2,100 feet on July 15 

 the wing in one measures 149 mm, agreeing thus with auratus, while 



