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(Strafford), in 1874, by D. N. McCadden and Geo. 
C. Thayer (Rhoads, Cass., vii, 24) ; another was 
taken from along an osage hedge in a clover meadow, 
Leopard (near Berwyn) in 1876, by my elder broth- 
ers and J. W. Sharp, Jr., and some of the end- 
blown Bluebird-like eggs may be seen in the Sharp 
collection yet. Pennock states that the bird was 
present up to 1875 and recalls two localities where 
he always expected to find it present in the nesting 
season ; one was near the village of Avondale and the 
other half a mile south of Kennett Square. He has 
frequently heard the male sing from scattered trees 
or bushes along the roadside but never found a nest. 
He first became acquainted with it about 1871, and 
never knew of more than two or three pairs which 
always affected certain spots (Rhoads, Cass., vil, 
24). A. Palmer took a specimen in the spring of 
1902 (Thomas MS.). 
165. Spiza townsendi "Townsend’s Bunting. 
Straggler; unique, probably the last of a decadent 
race. The type and only specimen known to science 
was taken at New Garden, May 11, 1833; and the 
following is an extract from the diary of Dr. Ezra 
Michener: “This morning my friend John K. 
Townsend, in company with John Richards, while 
in quest of birds for my cabinet; shot a bunting in 
William Brown’s cedar grove, near New Garden 
meeting-house, which is believed a nondescript. We 
have given it the provisional name of Euspiza 
albigula or white-throated bunting.” Audubon de- 
scribed and figured it in his original work (Orn. 
Biog., ii, 1834, 183; pl. cccc), and considered it a 
