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the proposal of Bangs and Penard ^"^ to call the red-eyed vireo Vireo 

 ■virescens on the grounds that the name Motacilla olivacea Linnaeus 

 in use for it could not properly be applied to this species, but they 

 did not find sufficient reason for discarding the current name. The 

 sajne question has been revived recently by Hellmayr.^^ 



Family COMPSOTHLYPIDAE 



MNIOTILTA VARIA (Linnaeus): Black and White Warbler 



The present species was fairly common during summer in the 

 eastern two-thirds of Tennessee, as shown by the following records: 

 10 miles north of Waynesboro, May 12; 7 miles southwest of Cross- 

 ville, May 24 and 25; Lookout Mountain, March 24, 1882 (W. H. 

 Fox) ; Rockwood, March 31, 1885, and April 5 and 11, 1884 (W. H. 

 Fox); Shady Valley, June 7 and 8; 6,000 feet elevation on Roan 

 Mountain, September 20; 5,000 feet elevation on Inadu Knob, Great 

 Smoky Mountains, June 26 ; 2,700 feet elevation, 4 miles southeast of 

 Cosby, June 30 and July 2; 2,100 feet elevation on Big Frog Moun- 

 tain, 8 miles southwest of Copperhill, July 9 and 15 (including 

 immature birds not quite grown on both dates) . 



PROTONOTARIA CITREA (Boddaert): Prothonotary Warbler 



The brilliant prothonotary warbler was seen at Hickory Withe 

 on April 10. At Reelfoot Lake, where three specimens were taken on 

 April 27 and 29 and May 7, these birds were common, particularly 

 on Green and Caney Islands. One was seen near Tiptonville on 

 May 1. 



LIMNOTHLYPIS SWAINSONII (Audubon): Swainson's Warbler 



On June 8 an adult male was taken at 3,000 feet elevation in the 

 Holston Mountains, 3 miles northeast of Shady Valley, in a swampy 

 area shaded heavily with hemlock and rhododendron. Two others 

 were recorded at 2,600 feet elevation 5 miles north of Shady Valley, 

 near Beaverdam Creek. 



HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS (Gmelin): Worm-eating Warbler 



The first one observed was found 8 miles north of Waynesboro 

 on May 16. W. H. Fox secured a male at Rockwood April 24, 1884, 

 and Perrygo and Lingebach obtained one at 3,000 feet elevation on 

 Big Frog Mountain 8 miles southwest of Copperhill on July 10. 



« Bull. Mus. Comp. ZoOl., vol. 67, 1925, p. 206. 



"Field Mus. Nat. Hist, zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 8, Sept. 16, 1935. p. 130. 



