SOME TENNESSEE BIRD NOTES. 209 



May, a fact which surprised me more at the 

 time than it does in the review. 



One bird was seen on this first day, and 

 not afterward. I had been into the woods 

 north of the city, and was returning, when 

 from the bridge over the Tennessee I caught 

 sight of a small flock of black birds, which 

 at first, even with the aid of my glass, I 

 could not make out, the bridge being so 

 high above the river and its banks. While 

 I was watching them, however, they began 

 to sing. They were bobolinks. Probably 

 the species is not common in eastern Ten- 

 nessee, as the name is wanting in Dr. Fox's 

 " List of Birds found in Roane County, Ten- 

 nessee, during April, 1884, and March and 

 April, 1885."! 



I have ventured upon some slight orni- 

 thological comparison between southeastern 

 Tennessee and eastern Massachusetts, and, 

 writing as a patriot (or a partisan), have 



1 The Auk, vol. iii. p. 315. Of sixty-two species seen 

 by me during the last four days of April, eleven are not 

 given by Dr. Fox, namely, Wilson's thrush, black-poll 

 warbler, bay-breasted warbler, Cape May warbler, black- 

 throated blue warbler, palm warbler, chestnut-sided war- 

 bler, blue golden-winged warbler, boboluik, Acadian fly- 

 catcher, yellow-billed cuckoo. 



