BIEDS OF EAST PENNSYLVANIA., 



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Townsend's Bunting. 



Blue Grosbeak. 



Yellow-headed Troopial, 



Canada Jay. 



Ground Doye. 



Whooping Crane. 



Euspiza Toiunsendii. There is but 

 one specimen of this bird known; 

 it was procured in Chester 

 County. * This so-called species 

 may be only a variety of Euspiza 

 A mericana. 



Guiraca ccerulea. A rare straggler to 

 the southern counties of Pennsyl- 

 vania and New Jersey. It arrives 

 in the middle of May. (S.) 



Xanthocephalus icterocephalus. Yel- 

 low- HEADED Blackbird. Dr 

 Jackson mentions that this species 

 is occasionally seen along the 

 Alleghany mountains, where a 

 flock appeared in the Autumn 

 of 1857. Mr John Krider 



shot a young male near Phila- 

 delphia. (S.) 



Perisoreus Canadensis. Whisky 

 Jack. A rare straggler to the 

 northern counties of Pennsylvania. 

 (W.) 



Chamaepelia passerina. Mr John 

 Krider shot a specimen near 

 Camden in the Autumn of 1858. 

 According to Dr Barton, who gave 

 a list of the Birds of Pennsylvania 

 in 1799, it was an occasional 

 visitant to the neighbourhood 

 of Philadelphia about a century 

 ago. (S). 



Grtts Americanus. Stoek. White 

 Ceane. Now very rare. WhUe 

 at Beasley's Point in 1857, I saw 

 three off the inlet; they were very 

 wary and could not be approached. 

 In Wilson's time it bred at Cape 

 May. 



