Spring notes from Tennessee

by Bradford Torrey

• Ragwort (Senecio), [93], [122].
• Raven, [130].
• Redstart, [6], [13], [25], [108], [117].
• Rhododendron, [135]-[137], [147], [169], [173], [176], [181].
• Robin, [96], [207], [210].
• Rue anemone, [62], [85].

• Saxifrage, [34].
• Sparrow:—
  • Bachman's (see Finch).
  • chipping, [6], [13], [26], [99], [111], [193], [207].
  • field, [6], [13], [17], [25], [47], [55], [62], [67], [70], [87], [117], [135], [193].
  • house (English) [93], [183], [185].
  • song, [4], [194], [205], [210].
  • vesper, [194], [207], [210].
  • white-crowned, [96].
  • white-throated, [6], [26], [95], [135], [142], [208].
• Specularia, [122].
• Spring beauty, [61], [85].
• Stonecrop, white, [34].
• Swallow:—
  • rough-winged, [22], [87], [88], [187].
  • tree (white-bellied), [187], [205], [207].
• Sweet bush, [137].
• Swift, chimney, [189].

• Tanager:—
  • scarlet, [20], [24], [33], [41], [118], [131], [135], [162].
  • summer, [3], [6], [13], [17], [20], [47], [70], [78], [120], [131].
• Thrasher (brown thrush), [6], [7], [13], [17], [33], [82], [99], [111], [183], [207].
• Thrush:—
  • gray-cheeked, [141].
  • hermit, [207].
  • Louisiana water, [163].
  • olive-backed (Swainson's), [7], [13], [14], [19], [20], [22], [24], [133], [208].
  • Wilson's (veery), [13], [14], [25], [111].
  • wood, [6], [13], [14], [17], [33], [47], [87], [99], [117], [120], [135].
• Titmouse, tufted, [13], [14], [61], [70].
• Tulip-tree, [178], [193].
• Tupelo, [23].
• Turkey, wild, [81], [130], [140].

• Viburnum, maple-leaved, [34].
• Violet, bird-foot, [34], [85].
• Vireo:—
  • red-eyed, [6], [13], [33], [42], [47], [55], [70].
  • solitary, [207].
  • white-eyed, [6], [9], [13], [17], [47], [110], [121], [204], [207].
  • yellow-throated, [9], [13], [33], [70], [99], [117].
• Vulture:—
  • black (carrion crow), [111], [188].
  • turkey, [6], [188].

• Warbler:—
  • bay-breasted, [6], [28], [32], [38], [49], [208].
  • Blackburnian, [30], [31], [38], [204].
  • black-poll, [6], [12], [19], [28], [32], [38], [42], [49], [61], [81], [96], [117], [198], [204], [208].
  • black-throated blue, [12], [31], [32], [37], [135], [157].
  • black-throated green, [28], [31], [135], [156], [202].
  • blue-winged, [20], [22], [71], [79], [80].
  • blue yellow-backed, [21], [134], [135].
  • Canadian, [21], [22], [23], [117], [135], [204].
  • Cape May, [32], [37], [39], [198], [200], [204], [208].
  • cerulean, [53].
  • chestnut-sided, [12], [25], [117], [204].
  • Connecticut, [14].
  • golden-winged, [13], [110], [120], [195].
  • hooded, [7], [48], [135], [146], [156], [203].
  • Kentucky, [9], [13], [14], [19], [24], [35], [47], [49], [109], [110], [116], [122], [132], [135], [156], [202]-[204].
  • magnolia, [19], [30], [32], [37], [117], [204].
  • mourning, [206].
  • myrtle (yellow-rumped), [6], [12], [32], [39], [198], [204], [207], [208].
  • Nashville, [195].
  • palm (red-poll), [32], [38], [117], [204], [207].
  • pine, [25], [175], [207].
  • prairie, [6], [21], [25], [110], [121], [203], [207].
  • Tennessee, [195].
  • Wilson's blackcap, [136], [204].
  • yellow (golden), [12], [99], [108], [185], [203],
  • yellow-throated, [72], [73], [75], [80].
• Water-thrush, Louisiana, [163].
• Whippoorwill, [143].
• Wintergreen, striped, [34].
• Woodpecker:—
  • downy, [191].
  • golden-winged, [66], [190].
  • hairy, [30], [190].
  • pileated, [191].
  • red-cockaded, [67], [73], [80], [191].
  • red-headed, [80], [190], [191].
• Wren:—
  • Bewick's, [4].
  • Carolina (mocking), [6], [13], [17], [25], [26], [28], [42], [47], [55], [71], [109], [162].

FOOTNOTES:

[1] If I could have my way, he should be known as the doorstep sparrow. The name would fit him to a nicety.

[2] It was not the top of the mountain; so I am now informed, on the best of authority. I followed the map, but misunderstood the man who drew it. It was a map of some other route, and I did not see the top of the mountain, after all.

[3] The Auk, vol. iii. p. 103.

[4] Both these warblers—the Nashville and the Tennessee—were named by Wilson from the places where the original specimens were shot. Concerning the Tennessee warbler he sets down the opinion that "it is most probably a native of a more southerly climate." It would be a pity for men to cease guessing, though the shrewdest are certain to be sometimes wrong.