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there are forty-five which may yet be discovered.” 
Professional taxidermists in the past have found 
here a good field for collecting. C. D. Wood** of 
Philadelphia, secured at Coatesville, “Townsend’s 
Warbler, the sole Eastern record. Harry Garrett?® 
collected about his home in Willistown township 
for many years and his collection was purchased 
by the Swarthmore College; later he moved to West 
Chester and probably helped Josiah Hoopes?® form 
his splendid collection of North American land birds, 
now in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia. 
Thomas H(oopes) Jackson of West Chester, 
penned the first authentic description of the nidifica- 
tion of the Worm-eating Warbler in 1869, and he 
has long been the leading authority on our breeding 
Raptores and Wood Warblers. Among the oological 
collectors of this period or earlier were E. J. Dar- 
lington,?7 Dr. W(illiam) L(ivingston) Hartman 
and J. Hoopes Matlack,?* all of West Chester ; also 
B. A. Hoopes,”® of Philadelphia and Downingtown, 
an ornithologist better known as the original de- 
scriber of Krider’s Hawk, named in honor of the 
Philadelphia taxidermist®® so well known in Chester 
county. 
Samuel N(icholson) Rhoads wrote from the 
Westtown School and C(harles) F(rederic) P (hil- 
lips) in 1876, published notes on 21 species found 
near Kennett Square; mostly breeding records of 
more or less importance at that date. Dr. B(enja- 
min) Harry Warren of West Chester, published a 
complete list of 218 species in 1879-1880. Weeding 
