30 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



taken on May ic, 1892, by Mr. Claude Dunn of Ocean View. 1 

 Mr. Newton Dexter writes, " have noted very many in the past ten 

 years migrating from the north in August and September at 

 Sakonnet Point. They usually fly high and are rarely killed." 



(18) 70. Sterna hirundo Linn. COMMON TERN. Mackerel 

 Gull. A common summer resident, breeding on Cormorant 

 Rock and Dyer's Island. 2 The nests on the Cormorant Rock 

 are constructed of fish bones, as there is no vegetation. The 

 bones are gathered together after the weather has washed them 

 free from the Cormorant pellets with which the rock is strewn. 

 (See Cormorant Rock.) 



May 1 6 to September 20. One doubtful record for October 24, 

 1891. There is also a record of two being taken in October. 8 



(19) 72. Sterna dougalli Montag. ROSEATE TERN. Mack- 

 erel .Gull. An uncommon summer resident, not uncommon in 

 August and September, straying probably from the Penikese Island 

 colony, Mass., as it does not breed to our knowledge within the 

 State. 



(May) to (October) . 



(20) 74. Sterna antillarum (Less.). LEAST TERN. One 

 was taken at Bench Mark Rock, off Nayatt Point by Mr. Thomas 

 Adcock in 1885. Others are said to have been taken. Mr. 

 Newton Dexter writes that this specie? " was formerly common in 

 Narragansett Bay, and reports the capture of one at Sakonnet on 

 August 20, 1897, now in the Smith collection." 



(21) 75. Sterna fuliginosa Gmel. SOOTY TERN. An acci- 

 dental visitant. Mr. Fred. T. Jencks took a specimen at Point 

 Judith in September i876. 4 Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes, that 



J O. & O., Vol. 17, No. 6, p. 96. 

 2 Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 2, p. 203. 

 3 O. & O., Vol. 18, No. 10, p. 141. 

 4 Osprey, Vol. II, Nos. 6 and 7, p. 91. 



Birds of Connecticut by C. Hart Merriam, Conn. Acad. IV, 1887, p. 134. 

 Allen's Revised List Birds of Mass. Bull. 7. Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., 

 p. 227. 



Coues and Stearns, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 374. 



