A Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology. 



Sargent, Joseph A. Prout, picked up from the sidewalk on Potter's Ave. 

 Providence, a bird that the combined wisdom of Station I could not name, 

 and it was brought to me, just barely alive, a fine specimen of a male 

 Leach's Petrel, taken a mile from any salt water, and two or three miles 

 from an J open and considerable area, twenty miles from where we would 

 anticipate finding them. This is about the first matter of any consequence 

 to which I seemed to have any prior right to mention. 

 Providence, Dec. i8, 1901. James M. Southwick. 



Notes on the Water and Shore Birds about Middletown, Autumn of 

 1901. — The following birds have been observed on the marshes about 

 Newport and Jamestown from Aug. 7 to Sept. 18, 1901 : Gallinago delicata, 

 Macrorrhamphus griseus (about 20 seen and i shot (Aug. 12), 2 seen Aug. 

 16), Micropalama himantofus (4 shot Aug. 14, quite common), Tringa 

 canutus (saw gunner with two about Aug. 17), Tringa inaculaia^ Tringa 

 fuscicollis (quite common on marshes this summer), Tringa hairdii (i shot 

 Sept. 14, 7th record), Tringa ininutilla, Ereunetes pusillus, Ereunetes 

 occidentalis (several seen or shot in Aug.; quite common), Calidris 

 areneria, Limosa kceinastica ? (7 seen Sept. 19), Totanus melanoletccus, 

 Totanus Jlavifes, Totanus solitarius (i shot Aug. 14), Syinphemia semi- 

 palmata (several have been seen this year), Bartramia longicauda (com- 

 mon in Aug.), Actitis macularia, Numenitis kudsonicus, Squatarola 

 sqttatarola, Ckaradrius dotninicus (fairly numerous in middle Sept., shot 

 2, 1 Sept. 19, I Sept. 24), ^Egialifis vocifera (i shot by market gunner 

 about Aug. 27), yEgtalitis semipalmaia, ^^gialitis meloda (?), Arenaria 

 interpres, Porzana Carolina, Botaurus lentiginosus, Ardetta exilis (i seen 

 Sept. 14 Easton's pond, there is little doubt of identification), Ardea 

 herodias, Butorides virescens, Nycticorax ?t. ncevius. Anas obscura^ 

 ^uerquedtda discors. 

 Newport, R. I. Le Roy King. 



A Correction. — On Nov. 19, 1901, a young $ Bald Eagle was shot in 

 Little Compton, R. I., by Richard E. Bullock. 



Certain facts in this connection induced me to investigate the recent 

 records of the Golden Eagle in southeastern Rhode Island. One specimen, 

 reported in 'Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology', Vol. II, p. 7, — "Another 

 Golden Eagle in Rhode Island" (Tiverton, Nov. 10, 1900), I found to be 

 a Bald Eagle. While my name does not appear against this record, I 

 consider myself morally responsible for the error, as I had the opportunity 

 of examining the bird, and so I take this means of correcting the record. 

 . The other record for which I am responsible "Birds of Rhode Island," 

 page 58, (Little Compton, Dec. 13-15, 1898), I found to be correct. The 

 bird is now in possession of Chas. S. Pierce of Somerset, Mass., and is a 

 fine adult $ . 



Fall River, Dec. 3, 1901. Owen Durfee. 



