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in the Bay and can be seen on the Halfway Rocks off Prudence 
Island. The Gull ‘Dick’! whose long life and history has 
interested so many observers, we are glad to be able to include 
among Rhode Island birds. 
September g to May 16. June, July, and August. 
(15) 58. Larus atricilla Linn. LaucHinc GuLL. — Mr. 
Newton Dexter killed a bird at Sakonnet Point in September, 
1884. 
(16) 60. Larus philadelphia (Ord). Bonaparre’s GULL. — 
A winter visitor, common in spring and fall along the coast, 
generally observed in small flocks. Out of a flock of ten, seven 
were shot near Warwick Neck Light by the keeper, May 18, 
1888, and three young birds, Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes us, have 
been taken on the Seekonk River during three successive falls, 
the last on September 25, 1895. Mr. Newton Dexter also writes 
“that a bird was taken in the fall, years ago, in full plumage on 
-the same river.” Lt. Wirt Robinson says that he has “seen 
flocks in Newport Harbor of certainly two hundred individuals.” 
September 25 to May 18. ‘There are also two August records 
for Newport, one on the 27th, and one for Westerly. 
(17) 64. Sterna caspia Pallas. Caspian TrErN.— An 
accidental visitant. Three records, a bird taken about Septem- 
ber 1, 1878, at Brightman’s Pond, near Noyes Beach by Mr. 
Wm. Gudgeon,” another, a female, taken at Westerly on July 27, 
1881, by Mr. J. B. Dunn,? and still another reported to have been 
PR Vol. Me 227. Vol Mpa 7O Vol. M1 pi 230 Vol. XII ip. 76; 
Vol. XIII p. 78; Vol. XV p. 40. 
? Oologist Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 32. 
30. & O., Vol. 6, No. 6, p. 44. 
Coues and Stearns’s, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 357. 
Note: (69) Sterna forsteri Nutt. ForsTeR’s TERN.—In Coues and 
Stearns’s New Eng. Bird Life ‘‘Mr. N. T. Lawrence speaks of two R. I. 
specimens (Hor. & Str., Vol. X, 1878, p- 235). This is an error, for on 
looking up the record we find it reads “ L. I.” (Long Island) instead of “ R. I.” 
(Rhode Island). 
