56 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



a record of a nest with ten eggs being found on October 10, 

 1894, near Wakefield by Mr. E. O. Schuyler. 1 



(118) 300. Bonasa umbellus (Linn.). RUFFED GROUSE. 

 Partridge. A common resident in the northern and western 

 portions of the State. Absent as far as our knowledge extends 

 on Bristol promontory, and all the islands of Narragansett Bay. 



(119) 316. Zenaidura macroura (Linn.). MOURNING 

 DOVE. Long-tailed Dove. Carolina Dove A not uncommon 

 summer resident in the northern and western portions of the 

 State. At Bristol, and on all the islands in Narragansett Bay, 

 except perhaps on the Island of Rhode Island it is rare or absent.* 



April 3 to October 6. 



(120) 325. Cathartes aura (Linn.). TURKEY VULTURE. 



A rare straggler from the South. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes 

 that a bird was taken at Niantic in the summer of 1861, which 

 was mounted and presented to the Franklin Society collection 

 by Mr. Newton Dexter. Another was taken in November, 1890, 

 at the northeast end of Conanicut Island by Mr. E. D. Arnold, 

 son of the lighthouse keeper. Mr. LeRoy King of Newport 

 secured a specimen that was shot by a workman on June 20, 

 1893, on the King Farm, Brenton's Point, Newport. At the time 

 it was feeding on some kind of a dead animal, probably a cat. 

 The bird was mounted by Messrs. Southwick and Critchley and 

 is now in Mr. King's possession. One, which is now in the Smith 

 collection, was brought to Mr. J. W. Critchley, Taxidermist, 

 about May 10, 1896 (exact locality unknown). 



(121) 331. Circus hudsonius .(Linn.). MARSH HAWK. 



A common migrant and summer resident. This species is 

 fast becoming rare. 



(March 15) April 17 to October 29. 



1 Prov. Journal, Oct. 27, 1894. 

 * Col. Powel's List, p. 42. 



