Early Record for the Piping Plover ( SEgialitis meloda ) in Rhode 
Island. — I have just obtained a Piping Plover which was taken on March 
24 last by Mr. C. B. Clarke, a local taxidermist. The bird, which is a 
male in spring plumage, was shot on the Middletown marshes about 
three miles east of Newport. I believe this is the earliest spring record 
for the State. — LeRoy King, Newport , R. /. 
Auk, XX, July, 1803, p- 3° S'- 
