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temperature was very cool being around 30° each night and one clear sunny day it reached 54°. A great many days the clouds were down over the mountain and we could not see our way to collect. About 6 a.m. each morning ravens would pass over our camp flying north. In spite of the foggy weather and other adverse weather conditions we added materially to the collection while in this region. 

After our futile trapping for northern flying squirrels in the balsam and spruce forests, we moved our traps down to an altitude of 5500 feet and lower in the birch woods, obtaining one after several days of trapping. 

We stopped for about a week on Clinch Mt. in the eastern part of the state where the forest consists of second and third growth pine and hardwoods. We made a fair representative collection here. 

We returned to the Mississippi Lowlands the first week in October to acquire representatives of the Fall migration in the cotton growing districts. Considering the windy weather which handicaps bird collecting, we obtained good results. We spent about a week in the tobacco growing section of Clarksville, north of Nashville near the Kentucky line, making collections along the Cumberland River which is one of the few rivers flowing north in the United States. 

On November 1 we moved to Fayettesville, south of Nashville, collecting in the farming sections of Lincoln and Giles Counties. A great part of this section is rocky, covered with scrub cedar and cacti. I have never seen rice rats and crows more abundant than in this area.

After a fruitful ten days here and the weather getting much too cool for collecting, we were compelled to leave for Washington.