All in all, then, between politics and business, the city was "very much alive," as the saying goes; but somehow it was not so often the people about me that occupied my thoughts as those who had been here thirty years before. Precious is the power of a first impression. Because I was newly in the country I was constantly under the feeling of its past. Hither and thither I went in the region round about, listening at every turn, spying into every bush at the stirring of a leaf or the chirp of a bird; yet I had always with me the men of '63, and felt always that I was on holy ground.
[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.
[8] _The Auk_, vol. iii. p. 315. Of sixty-two species seen by me during the last four days of April, eleven are not given by Dr. Fox, namely, Wilson's thrush, black-poll warbler, bay-breasted warbler, Cape May warbler, black-throated blue warbler, palm warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, blue golden-winged warbler, bobolink, Acadian flycatcher, yellow-billed cuckoo.
FOUND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CHATTANOOGA FROM APRIL 27 TO MAY 18, 1894.
1. Green Heron. _Ardea virescens._--A single individual seen from a car window. No other water birds were observed except three or four ducks and a single wader, all upon the wing and unidentified.
2. Bob White. Quail. Partridge. _Colinus virginianus._--Common.
3. Ruffed Grouse. "Pheasant." _Bonasa umbettus._--Heard drumming on Walden's Ridge.
4. Carolina Dove. Mourning Dove. _Zenaidura macroura._--A small number seen.
5. Turkey Vulture. Turkey Buzzard. _Cathartes aura._--Common.
6. Black Vulture. Carrion Crow. _Catharista atrata._--Two birds seen.
7. Red-tailed Hawk. _Buteo borealis._--One bird seen from Walden's Ridge.
8. Sparrow Hawk. _Falco sparverius._--One bird, on Walden's Ridge.
9. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. _Coccyzus americanus._--Common. First noticed April 29.
10. Black-billed Cuckoo. _Coccyzus erythrophthalmus._--Seen twice on Lookout Mountain, May 7 and 8, and once on Walden's Ridge, May 12.