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in the Bay and can be seen on the Halfway Rocks ofE Prudence 

 Island. The Gull ' Dick ',1 whose long life and history has 

 interested so many observers, we are glad to be able to include 

 among Rhode Island birds. 



September 9 to May 16. June, July, and August. 



(15) 58. Larus atricilla Linn. Laughing Gull. — Mr. 

 Newton Dexter killed a bird at Sakonnet Point in September, 

 1884. 



(16) 60. Larus Philadelphia (Ord). Bonaparte'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 i8. There are also two August records 

 for Newport, one on the 27th, and one for Westerly. 



(17) 64. Sterna caspia Pallas. Caspian Tern. — An 

 accidental visitant. Three records, a bird taken about Septem- 

 ber I, 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 



'Auk, Vol. IX p. 227; Vol. X, p. 76; Vol. XI p. 73; Vol. XII p. 76; 

 Vol. XIII p. 78 ; Vol. XV p. 49. 



^ Oologist Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 32. 



3 O. & 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 (For. & 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). 



