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another, though he questions it, was found dead in Newport in 

 1877, and still another, a male, in full plumage, was taken at 

 Woonsocket on July 16, 1897, now in the Smith collection. 



(22) 77. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.). 

 Black Tern. — An irregular spring and fall migrant. A fine 

 adult was taken at Newport by Dr. Henry F. Marshall on August 

 16, 1880.1 Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that five, all young, and 

 in fall plumage were shot at Sakonnet Point on August 24, 1891. 

 Mr. Newton Dexter says that they are " very abundant off 

 Sakonnet at times, usually after a heavy southeaster in early 

 September." 



August. September. 



(23) 88. Puffinis borealis Cory. Cory's Shearwater. 

 Grew Gull. — An uncommon summer visitant. A bird was sent 

 Dr. Wm. C. Rives, on September 30, 1886, by Mr. J. Glynn, Jr., of 

 Newport,^ and a bird was taken near Point Judith in October, 

 1886, which was stuffed by Mr. John Hague, and is now in collec- 

 tion of Brown University, and a male was taken at Newport on 

 August 27, 1886, collection of Mr. R. L. Agassiz, now in the col- 

 lection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 

 The capture of these birds would tend to show, as Dr. Rives sug- 

 gests, " that the flight of these birds extended as far west as the 

 mouth of Narragansett Bay." '^ This was the year of that remark- 

 able flight. Since then the following have been reported : Mr. 

 A. C. Bent took a female near Cormorant Rock on October 

 26, 1890, one was taken in 1891 in Narragansett Bay, four were 

 taken at Newport, October 9, 1892, and mounted for Mr. J. M. K. 

 Southwick of Newport, by Messrs. Southwick and Critchly of 

 Providence. Two were shot at Point Judith by Mr. N. N. Bishop 

 and others, one on Aug. 15, 1894, which is in the collection of 

 Mr. H. S. Hathaway, and the other a few days later, which is 

 now in the Smith collection. Mr. Newton Dexter writes that 

 " the bird has been taken off Block Island, and that he took one 



1 Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 4, p. 237. 

 = Auk, Vol. V, No. I, p. 108. 



