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(Stratford), 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., vii, 

 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 n, 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, J 83J pi. cccc), and considered it a 



