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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 llth, 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 



