71 

 Alleghany County. During 1910, I found this to he a very 

 common "bird in western Pennsylvania, breeding abundantly in 

 Clarion, Franklin, and Venango Counties. Mr. Dickey has 

 never found it in Green County. 



598. Passerina cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. 



This handsome little finch is an abundant summer 

 resident, nesting in every county thruout the state and 

 apparently occuring in the greatest numbers in the Alleghan- 

 ian fauna. 



604. Spiza americana ( Gjnej . ) . Dickcissel. 



In an excellent article in Cassinia for 1903, Mr. 

 S. N. Rhoads sets forth the status of this bird, once common 

 hut now extinct thru the southern half of the state, and the 

 following information is cased on the notes given in his 

 paper. Previous to 1860, it was found very commonly in the 

 southeastern part of the state and was reported as breeding 

 about Philadelphia (Wilson, Audubon, and Woodhouse), in 

 Cumberland Coufity about Carlisle (S. F. Baird), Chester 

 County (Barnard), Delaware County (Cassin), and Lancaster 

 County (Libhardt). About 1380 the bird suddenly became 

 extinct in the state, tho W. L. Collins found a few still 

 near Frankford in 1831, and Dr. Percy Moore noted a pair in 



