30 : THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 
taken on May ro, 1892, by Mr. Claude Dunn of Ocean View.? 
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 
Gui A common summer resident, breeding on Cormorant 
Rock and Dyer’s Island.?, 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 16 to September 20. One doubtful record for October 24, 
1891. There is also a record of two being taken in October.® 
(19) 72. Sterna dougalli Montag. RosraTE TERN. JAfack- 
erel Guil— 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 species “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. Soory Tern.—An acci- 
dental visitant. Mr. Fred. T. Jencks took a specimen at Point 
Judith in September 1876.4 Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes, that 
1ONs ©O:;, Viol 17; No. ©, p. 96. 
? Auk, Vol. XIV, No. 2, p. 203. 
°O. & 0. Vol. 18, Nov to, -p. 141. 
‘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. 
