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Junco hyemalis oregonus. Rather common. 



Melospiza fasciata montanus. Not very common. 



Melospiza lincolni. In the same places as the last, and about equally 

 numerous during first part of the month. 



Pipilo maculatus arcticus. Not common. 



Dendroica auduboni. About a dozen individuals altogether were seen, 

 and one was captured as late as October 24. 



Parus gambeli. Abundant during the whole time of my stay. Exceed- 

 ingly tame and, like other Paridie, partially gregarious. Not seen at all at 

 Pueblo in 1883. 



Myadestes townsendi. But one was seen — October 31. The bird was 

 common here in the spring of 1SS3. 



Turdus ustulatus swainsoni. On October 30, I shot a belated Olive- 

 backed Thrush in a willow thicket. It was very emaciated, one leg had 

 been broken, and but one feather was left to 'adorn' its tail — or, perhaps, 

 'point a moral.' Its presence here at this date is thus easily accounted 

 for. 



Merula migratoria propinqua. I saw but four or five individuals during 

 my stay. 



Sialia arctica. Rather uncommon. The only one shot was a young 

 male with the blue feathers edged with brown. 



Sialia mexicana. Observed only upon two or three occasions, when 

 they appeared to be migrating; coming from the north and disappearing 

 towards the south. 



AUGUST BIRDS OF THE CHILHOWEE MOUN- 

 TAINS, TENNESSEE. 



BY F. W. LANGDON. 



The observations herein recorded were made chiefly in Blount 

 County, East Tennessee, between August 11 and 21, 1SS6, in- 

 clusive. The elevations known as the 'Chilhowee Mountains,' 

 are a group of spurs or offshoots from the Great Smoky Range 

 of the East Tennessee and North Carolina border ; and extend, 

 nearly at right angles to the 'Smokies,' as a series of more or less 

 parallel ridges, 1500104000 feet in height, for fifteen or twenty 

 miles in a general northwesterly direction. There are three 

 main ranges answering the above description and these are lim- 

 ited or cut oft', so to speak, at their northwestern extremities, by 

 the Chilhowee range proper (called on some maps Chilhowee 



