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Two were taken at Newport on August 4 and 8, respectively, 
1899. Mr. Sturtevant and Mr. LeRoy King observed a great 
number, estimated in the thousands, off Point Judith, August 
14, 1899. 
(May) to (September). 
(28) 115. Sula bassana (Linn.). Gannet. Solan Goose. 
— A migrant off the coast, not uncommon at Block Island, but 
rarely seen near the coast line. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that 
two were taken on Narragansett Bay, October, 1891, and there 
is a specimen in the collection of the Newport Natural History 
Society, taken off Sachuest Point in 1891. Mr. Newton Dexter 
says that they “ pass over the sea usually well off shore on their 
southern migration from the roth of September, and later gener- 
ally in flocks of from six to twenty, old and young together, and 
that they return in April, going north singly, sometimes two or 
three are in sight at once but never in close company. In Octo- 
ber,” he adds, “they are common between Brenton’s Reef and 
Block Island.” 
October 26 to May 16, rare in winter. 
(29) 119. Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). CorMORANT. 
Common Cormorant. Shag. “ Taunton Turkey.’ ‘* Taunton 
Shag.’ — A not uncommon winter resident in the vicinity of 
_ Cormorant Rock. Migrating up and down Narragansett Bay, 
generally by the Sakonnet River, to the Taunton, and other 
rivers tofeed. This bird has been considered much rarer than 
it really is in Rhode Island. Cormorant Rock is probably about 
as far south as they winter in any numbers. There is a speci- 
men taken in Narragansett Bay by the Rev. James Coyle (no 
other data) in the Newport Natural History Society collection. 
Mr. Geo. H. Mackay shot one bird at West Island on April 21, 
188g, and one bird at Cormorant Rock on April 19, 1892. On 
October 26, 1890, Mr. A. C. Bent took three birds off Cormorant 
Rock, the one that is in his collection is P. cardo, and he believes 
without doubt the other two. were the same. One bird was taken 
March 27, 1885, at Newport,! and one at Nayatt Point on 
1 Allen’s Revised List Birds of Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His., p. 229. 
