TOWHE BUNTING. 
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This species seems to have a peculiar dislike to the sea coast, 
as in the most favourable situations, in other respects, within 
several miles of the sea, it is scarcely ever to be met with. Scarci- 
ty of its particular kinds of a favourite food in such places may 
probably be the reason; as it is well known that many kinds of 
insects, on the larvae of which it usually feeds, carefully avoid 
the neigbourhood of the sea. 
