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we spent the week of July 4, Cole collecting in Kentucky, while I 

 crossed to secure certain desired specimens of birds from Wayne, 

 Logan, and Mingo Counties in West Virginia. 



Our work completed here, we moved to Lewis and Greenup Coun- 

 ties, pitching our tent beside an Indian mound at Fullerton, for work 

 along the Ohio River. This completed the investigations for the early 

 part of the season, and we returned to Washington July 15. 



Accompanied by Herbert Deignan, of the Division of Birds, and 

 Gregor Rohwer, I left for the autumn collecting trip on September 15. 

 At Middlesboro we obtained permission from the American Associa- 

 tion Coal Company to investigate the deciduous forests covering Log 

 Mountain whose summit rises to approximately 3,100 feet above the 

 sea. We had a profitable 2 weeks here, with the birds and mammals 

 typical of mountains of this altitude. While here we were joined for 

 a few days by Dr. Alexander Wetmore. 



Leaving Middlesboro on October 1, we moved to Rockcastle and 

 Madison Counties, collecting south of the college town of Berea. A 

 considerable part of this region, with an altitude of 1,000 feet, is flat 

 with poor drainage, forming many wet meadows. This made it an 

 excellent country for marsh wrens. Savannah sparrows, and many 

 other birds and mammals. 



We moved from here to the Ohio River south of Covington, to 

 catch the fall migration along the Ohio and its lowlands. Here we 

 secured the long and short-billed marsh wrens, American bittern and 

 coot in the cat-tail marshes, while along the bluffs and rolling hills 

 near the river were various wood and field birds. 



On October 15 we journeyed to Madisonville to examine the low 

 cypress swamp country in Hopkins, McLean, and Muhlenberg Coun- 

 ties. Although swamp rabbits occur here, they were scarce, and we 

 were unable to get any. However, we did find LeConte's sparrows 

 and the prairie horned lark. The lespedeza (Japanese clover) recently 

 widely distributed in this county made good feeding ground and cover 

 for marsh wrens, sparrows, and many other birds. 



The Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers which flow northward into 

 the Ohio River run near and parallel to each other in Trigg County, 

 where we spent a successful week collecting in the bottomlands. Here 

 we saw several swamp rabbits in patches of cane. 



Our last week was spent in the cedar-covered hills and in the farm- 

 lands of the Mammoth Cave area in Edmonson County, and on 

 November 15 we were once more in Washington. 



