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in another two days. This small colony has inhabited the island for a 
great many years and as they are not disturbed will undoubtedly continue 
to do so. It is the only colony in Narragansett Bay. _ 
On June 27, 1896, I visited the Weepecket Islands in Buzzard’s Bay. 
There are three islands in this group—Great and the two Little 
Weepeckets. I landed first on the most eastern of the two little ones, an 
island of about an acre in extent. This island has been slowly cut away 
by the action of the sea until now it presents a plateau-like appearance, 
some ten feet high, surrounded by a narrow rocky shore. Although as I 
approached the island at least fifty Terns arose from it, I found but three 
nests, all containing two eggs each; these nests were placed on the edge of 
the plateau and were quite well hidden among grass and poison ivy (/thus 
toxtcodendron). 
The Roseate Terns (Szerza dougalli) were apparently the only inhab- 
itants of this island, their long tail-feathers, bills, and harsh cries, beside 
the appearance of the eggs, proved their identity. 
I next landed on the other Little Weepecket, an island resembling 
almost exactly its neighbor in size, topography, etc., and from which rose 
about the same number of Terns; however, there proved to be a few 
Wilson’s in addition to the prevailing species, the Roseates, inhabiting 
this island, as was proved by my finding a typical set of three eggs on 
the beach above tide water. Three other nests were found, all Roseates (?), 
and containing two eggs each; one of these was on the beach and the 
other two along the edge of the plateau and buried among scrubby poison 
ivy which covered thickly and entirely the whole crest of theisland. The 
two sets on the beach were perfectly fresh. 
It was not until June 30 that I landed on Great Weepecket, the most 
western of the three islands and of some twelve acres inextent. Its uplands 
are covered with scrub sumac (hus copallina?), low barberry, blackberry, 
mullein (Verbascum thapsus) and yarrow (Achillea millefolium), and beach 
grass (Ammophila arundinacea). The southeastern shore of the island 
is a continuous beach, while the northwestern side is a steep bank cut 
away by the action of the sea. The southerly and northerly ends of the 
uplands are composed entirely of sand and covered with a sparse growth 
of beach grass. These sandy points, and in fact almost all the upland, 
are inhabited by a great many mice and their runways are to be seen in 
every direction. I was unable to get any specimens for identification. 
Beside a few Song Sparrows (Melospiza fasciata), Spotted Sandpipers 
(Actitis macularia), a nest of which contained four hard set eggs, and a 
pair of Kingfishers (Ceryle alcyon), whose nest my companion dug out 
and found to contain eight pin-feather covered young, the Terns were the 
sole inhabitants of the island. 
I checked off the eggs on the uplands and found, two nests containing 
no eggs; three nests containing one egg each; seven nests containing two 
eggs each; twelve nests containing three eggs each; one nest containing 
four eggs, and one dropped egg, and one Wilson’s chick (?) in down. 
