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in less numbers — on Walden's Ridge. The 

 two warblers that I listed every day, no 

 matter where I went, were the chat and the 

 black-and-white creeper. 



When all is said, the Kentucky, with its 

 beauty and its song, is the star of the family, 

 as far as eastern Tennessee is concerned. I 

 can hear it now, while Falling Water goes 

 babbling past in the shade of laurel and 

 rhododendron. As for the chat, it was om- 

 nipresent; in the valley, along the river, on 

 Missionary Ridge, on Lookout Mountain, 

 on Walden's Ridge, in the national cemetery, 

 at Chickamauga, — everywhere, in short, 

 except within the city itself. In this regard 

 it exceeded the white-eyed vireo, and even 

 the indigo-bird, I think. Black-polls were 

 seen daily up to May 13, after which they 

 were missing altogether. The last Cape 

 May and the last yellow-rump were noted on 

 the 8th, the last redstart and the last palm 

 warbler on the 11th, the last chestnut-side, 

 magnolia, and Canadian warbler on the 12th. 

 On the 12th, also, I saw my only Wilson's 

 black-cap. In my last outing, on the 18th, 

 on Walden's Ridge, I came upon two Black- 

 burnians in widely separate places. At the 



