48 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



ture of a bird at Newport on August 30, 1876, by Mr. F. W. 

 Rhinelander.i Mr. F. T. Jencks took one at Point Judith, Sep- 

 tember 5, 1879, Mr. Sturtevant took two on Sakonnet River, 

 May 15, 1892, and saw five on September 4, 1899, near Gull 

 Rock, Narragansett Bay. There is one taken in August, 1894, 

 and a female on May 11, 1898, at Newport, now in the Smith col- 

 Jection. Mr. Newton Dexter writes " a remarkable flight of 

 these birds occurred at Sakonnet on May 15, 1895. A heavy 

 southeast gale was blowing with much rain. Hundreds of flocks 

 passed over the land at a point near the breakwater flying south- 

 east. From a dozen to fifty in a flock." 

 May, August 16 to September 15. 



(83) 224. Steganopus tricolor Vieill. Wilson's Phala- 

 ROPE. — Dr. Rives records the capture of a bird taken by Mr. 

 F. T. Jencks at Newport on August 2, 1880.1 There is also a 

 female taken at Newport on August 20, 1883, in the collection 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History. Mr. J. Glynn, Jr., 

 secured an immature bird from a local sportsman of Newport, on 

 September 13, i886.' Mr. Newton Dexter took one at Sakonnet, 

 August 24, 1899, now in Dr. G. T. Gardiner's collection, which 

 also contains another specimen. 



(84) 228. Philohela minor (Gmel.). American Wood- 

 cock. — A common migrant, and formerly common summer resi- 

 dent, now becoming almost rare as a breeding bird. There is a 

 record for very early nesting, April i6, young having just left the 

 nest.^ * 



(March) to December 4. 



(85) 230. Gallinago delicata (Ord.). Wilson's Snipe. 



' Dr. Rives' List, p. 39. 

 ^ Dr. Rives' List, p. 39. 

 Bull. Nut. Ora. Club, Vol. V, No. 4 p. 237. 

 Coues and Stearns, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 187. 

 3 Auk, Vol. IV, No. I, p. 73. 

 * Ran. Notes, Vol. II, No. V, p. 8. 



» F. & S., Vol. XV, No. 19, p. 371, Vol. XXI, No. 25, p. 498. Vol. XXXV, 

 No. 16, p. 312. 



