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Colinus virgintanus (Quail) Oct. 15 to Nov 11 = 37 birds. 
Ectopistes migratorius (Wild Pigeon) Oct. 19= 1 bird. 
. .  Lotal, 812 birds. 
(To be continued.) 
. GENERAL NOTES. 
Spring Arrival Notes.— Robins arrived here at Newport on March 3, 
and Purple Grackles on March 18. The first flock of Red-winged Black- 
birds, six in number, came on March 18 and Cowbirdson the 24th. There 
haye been a great many Horned Grebes about of late off the shore. 
Newport, March 21, 1900. EDWARD STURTEVANT. 
Second Record of the Henslow’s Sparrow for R. I.— Messrs. A. C. 
Bent of Taunton and Owen Durfee of Fall River, upon the occasion of 
a recent visit in looking over my collection found a specimen of a young 
Henslow’s Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowz) which I had mistaken for 
a young Yellow-winged Sparrow and had labelled itas such. The bird was 
taken Oct. 6, 1898 in Warwick, R. I.. near the Pawtuxet River and at the 
time it was alone feeding in some white birch saplings. 
The only other record is a male taken the last of April 1874 in Cranston 
by Mr.sF. T. Jencks, and recorded in the “Birds of Rhode Island” by 
Howe and Sturtevant. 
South Auburn, R. I. H. S. HarHaway. 
Uria troile in Rhode Island. — Although Mr. Sturtevant and I included 
the Murre in our ‘*‘ Birds of Rhode Island” I now doubt very much 
whether this bird has a right toa place in our fauna. After careful exam- 
ination of many specimens from Massachusetts in connection with my 
work on the birds of that State soon to be published, I failed to find a 
single authentic specimen, though the species has been attributed to the 
_ State for years. I have not examined the specimen recorded taken at 
Point Judith, but I have little doubt it would prove on careful examination 
to be Uria lomvia. 
Longwood, Mass. EpITor. 
Winter Notes. While out for a walk on Dec. 30, 1900, in Warwick, I 
started a flock of 8 or 10 Blue Jays out of a small swamp and was much 
Surprised to see a Grackle (species ?) fly into a maple sapling. I have ~ 
visited the Swamp three times since but have been unable to find the bird 
again. 
Bluebirds have been around my house all winter; two males and a 
female having been noted in December and January on several occasions. 
The first Red-wing Blackbird,a @, arrived here on March 15 and a 
Kingfisher was heard on the 16th. 
The warm weather of yesterday (the 18th) brought a bird wave and I 
