The Breeding Warblers of Tennessee 141 



had the pleasure of recording here during the breeding season. 

 Excepting in the higher altitudes of the southern Alleghenies, 

 this is the furthest south this species has been recorded in sum- 

 mer. 



Louisiana Water- Thrush — Seiurus motacilla. 



Fairly common in the deep woods along the little rock bottom 

 spring branches and along Marrowbone Creek wherever the stream 

 comes in contact with steep wooded hillsides which offer a nesting 

 site above flood water. A nest with four almost fresh eggs was 

 found beautifully located on a ledge of rock and hidden by a spray 

 of fern. The parent bird slipped off the nest when I had ap- 

 proached to within thirty feet and ran along the spring branch 

 ahead of me. This was doubtless a second set, since a young of 

 the year in almost mature plumage was taken on the same day. 



Maryland Yellow-throat — GeotJiylypis trichas trichas. 



Quite common here as elsewhere. Found along the ditches, in 

 the briar patches, and by the barrow pits along the railroad track. 

 A singing male was nearly always within earshot. One which had 

 taken up it's headquartors within fifty feet of the house where we 

 stayed, began his ditty at daybreak and proved such a menance to 

 our morning sleep that we were sorely tempted to shoot him. 



Yellow-breasted Chat — Icteria virens virens. 



Fairly common among the briar patches. Late in the afternoon 

 all the males mount to a conspicuous perch and sing till dusk. 

 Their rich yellow breasts surmounting the pinnacle of some sap- 

 ling makes them conspicuous for quite a distance. 



Redstart — Setophaga ruticilla. 



This little firebrand of the woodland was noted hardly often 

 enough to be called fairly common. Always flitting from tree to 

 tree, catching flies in midair, with somersaults and loop-the-loops, 

 spreading his tail between times, this is a fascinating little bird to 

 watch. They are unsuspicious and will approach at times to 

 within a few feet of the observer. 



The fourteen warblers above, noted at Sulpher Springs, include 

 all but two which I have recorded in middle Tennessee during the 

 breeding season. The two species below have been recorded at 

 Kingston Springs, about ten miles south of the above locality and 

 in a region whose topography was exactly the same. 



Blue-winged Warbler — Verviivora pinus. 



Three records made during 1916 may mean that this bird will 

 prove to be fairly common. On June 24, an immature bird was 

 taken from a group of three on a brushy hillside. On July 1st an 



