56 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 
a record of a nest with ten eggs being found on October 1o, 
1894, near Wakefield by Mr. E. O. Schuyler.1 
(118) 300. Bonasa umbellus (Linn.). RuFFreD 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.). Mourninc 
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.). TuRKEyY 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.). Mars 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. 
