8 NoTES ON RHODE ISLAND ORNITHOLOGY. 
large flocks of Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) and Shore Larks 
(Otocoris alpestrés) on the Sachuest Pt. uplands. Out of the flock of 
Shore Larks we took one specimen of fraticola. On our way back across 
the marshes we started a flock of seven wintering Savanna Sparrows 
(Passerculus s. savanna), they evidently winter here not irregularly. 
On the 23d we sailed from Newport around Breton’s Reef to Cormorant 
Rock. Great numbers of old Squaws (Harelda hyemalis) and Mergansers 
(Merganser serrator) were about, also five flocks of Black Duck (Azas 
obscura) beside Kittawakes (Atssa tridactyla), Loons (Gavia timber), one 
Red-throated Loon (G. Zumme). We landed on the Rock, after starting 
from it a large flock of Cormorants, principally carbo, and two Purple 
Sandpipers (Zrizga maritima). Near the Rock a Red-necked Grebe 
(Colymbus holboellit) was swimming. The day was mild enough for Sep- 
tember; the wind light S. W. é \ 

EDITOR. 
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE NOTES, 1900. 
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus). Two, Sept. 25. | 
Yellow-Palm Warbler (Dezdroeca p. hypochrysea). One, 
Sept. 26. 
Black and White Creeper (MWzzotilta varia). One, Oct. 7. i 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). One, Oct. 7. 
Turnstone (Avenaria interpres). Two, Oct. 8. a Vicinity 
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus). One, Oct. 11. of Newport, 
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). Flock., | Louis di Zeg- 
Ochre. era Mearns. 
Greater Scaup Duck (Aythya marila). One g, Oct. 14. 
Catbird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis). One, Oct. 13. 
Brown Thrasher (Harfporrhynchus rufus). One, Oct. 13. 
Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus s. savanna). Two, | 
Oct. 23. 
Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis). One, Oct. 31, Harry 8. 
Cranston. Hathaway. 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Bird-lore, Vol. II, No. 4, 5, 6, Aug., Oct., Dec., 1900. 
The Auk, XVII, No. 3, 4, July, Oct., 1900. 
The Condor, Vol. II, No. 4, 5, 6, July and Aug., Sept. and Oct., Noy. 
and Dec. 1900. 
The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, Vol. II, No. 3 1900. 
The Wilson Bulletin, No. 32. Vol. VII, No. 3 July, 1900. 
Proc. of the Nebraska Ornithological Union, January, 1900. 


