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Two were taken at Newport on August 4 and 8, respectively, 

 1899. M"^- 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, i89r, 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 ofE shore on their 

 southern migration from the loth 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) iig. 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 to feed. 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, 

 1889, 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. carbo., and he believes 

 without doubt the other two were the same. One bird was taken 

 March 27, 1885, at Newport, 1 and one at Nayatt Point on 



' Allen's Revised List Birds of Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His., p. 229. 



