teo$>erature mi wm%f cool being around SO 0 each Bight and one clear nwmp day it 
reached S4 0 » A great x?any days the clouds Mil imn over the jaounta In -and we could 
not see cur my to collect* About 6 a#ia* each aofsimg rmmm would pass over our 
o«p flying north* In iplte cf the fogg roather and other advertfe rather eondi~ 
tlons vt ado-:-" sftmriUCUy to tro collection while to this region* 
After our futile tmgflitg for northern flyl...; squirrels in the balsam 
snd sprues forests # rm moved our traps demn to an alt it ude of 5500 feet and Xmmr 
in the Mreh iroods # obtaining ®m after i ral Says of i tpping* 
?la stopped for about a we#|e on Clinch Mfc* in the eastern part of the 
state whore the forest consists of second mid third growth pin© -and iiar&rooda* 
it aadto a fair represent t±m collection 1 i 
VI® returned to the {tisaiaalppl Lowlands the first mmk in October to 
acquire representative of the Frll micjratiofn in the cotton ;\rj; ,f inr; districts • 
Considering: the Mn^ weather v/hioli handicaps bird collectings we obtainad good 
results* Vb spent about a weak in the tobacco g*wr^^ section of Clarksville, 
north of Hashville near the Kentucky lino, r.»ol:ing collections along the Ou^erland 
River T/hiai is dm of the few riwrs flo. ■'■ i north in t 0 t&lted States* 
to -'.ovaiaber 1 we navvd to Fayottosville, south of Sashrille, collecting 
in the f I to sections ef Lincoln and Giles Counties* A groat part of this 
section is roe&y, cohered with scrub cedar and eacti« I hmm newer m m rim 
rats and croum mora abrailant thar in this area* 
After a fruitful tan dagrs here an I tH* weather getting ssuoh too cool 
for collecting, w§ -mm eiijpii^d to 'leave for Washington* 
