
24 NoTES ON RHODE ISLAND ORNITHOLOGY. 
Two Interesting Notes.— On the morning of July 17, 1901, while riding 
my bicycle across the level stretch of road between Easton Point and New- 
port I noticed a flock of ten Semipalmated Sandpipers (Hreunetes puszllus). 
They were flying rapidly before the wind, apparently coming from the 
beach just south of the road and going to some marshes north. On one 
side of the road are ten telephone wires about twenty feet above the ground. 
Into these wires the flock dashed at full speed and a mix-up followed. 
Two fell dead to the ground and two more fluttered away to die in the tall 
grass. 
On August 27, 1901, I took a Baird’s Sandpiper (Zvinga bazrdit) at 
Middletown. This is the fifth record for the state:— 
Newport. ; EDWARD STURTEVANT. 
Capture of two Bald Eagles (Haligetus leucocephalus (Linn.)).— So un- 
common is the Bald Eagle in this state that one is very fortunate to col- 
lect a single bird, but it fell to the lot of Capt. E. P. Sisson of the Sandy 
Point Life Saving Station to shoot two of these noble birds on the beach 
at the northern end of Block Island on May 5, 1900. 
They were in immature plumage and one which was placed in the 
Charles H. Smith collection at Roger Williams Park measured as follows : 
Length, 36 inches ; extent, 6 feet, 11 inches; wing, 23 inches; tail, 14} 
inches. 
While at Quonochontang, R. I., on Sept. 7, 1901, I saw towards night 
one of this species flying west along shore. 
South Auburn, Sept. 20, 1901. . H.S. HatHAway. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
NEw Lonpon, Conn. 
July 27, 1901. 
REGINALD HEBER HOWE, JR. 
Dear Sty :— You will be pleased to learn that I have found a Colony 
of Fish Crows “ nesting’? within sight of Watch Hill near the R. I. bor- 
der — 5 pairs with sets of eggs 4, 4, 2, 4, young, a day or so old — Rough- 
winged Swallows taken nearer and nearer each yeartoR. I. line also, and it 
behooves you to watch closely as Hooded Warblers, Fish-Crows, and 
Rough-wings may be found any time on the R. I. side. 
Sincerely yours, 
. James H. Hit, 



