LIST OF BIRDS SHOT NEAR NEWPORT. 
By COL. JOHN HARE POWEL. 
At the meeting of the Newport Natural History Society, March 
6, 18S4, Colonel John Hare Powel read the following list of birds 
he has killed on the island of Newport : 
Bald Eagle (one only in 1853 or 4), Osprey, Sparrow Hawk, 
Harrier (or Marsh) Hawk, Great Snow Owl, Horned Owl, 
Screech Owl, Grey Marsh Owl, White Swallow (an Albino), 
Snow Bird, Scarlet Tanager (Fire Bird), Shrike (Butcher Bird), 
Long-tailed Dove, Wild Pigeon, Gallinule, Purple Gallinule, 
Coot (Marsh Hen), Clapper Rail, Virginia Rail, Red-breasted 
Rail, Black-bellied Plover, Golden Plover, Ringed Plover, Wil¬ 
son’s (?) Plover, Piping Plover, Beetle-head Plover (Frost Bird), 
Killdeer, Turnstone, Red-breasted Sandpiper, Bartram’s Sandpiper 
(Grass Plover),Red-backed Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper 
(I think), Pectoral Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Solitary Sand¬ 
piper, Spotted Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Sanderling, Great 
Curlew, (or Sickle bill), Jack Curlew, Esquimaux Curlew (Fute 
or Dough Bird), Willet, Great Yellow-leg, Little Yellow-leg, 
Common Marlin, Ring-tailed Marlin, English Snipe (Wilson’s), 
Dowitclier (or German Snipe), Robin Snipe, Woodcock, 
Great Blue Heron, Night Heron, Bittern, Least Bittern, 
Canada Goose, Brent Goose, Snow (or Mexican) Goose^ 
Mallard Duck, Black (Dusky) Duck, Widgeon (or Baldpate) 
Pintail Duck, Gray Duck, Summer (or Wood Duck), 
Gad wall, Green-wing Teal, Blue-wing Teal, Shoveller Duck, 
Canvass-back Duck, Red-head Duck, Broad-bill, Ruddy Duck. 
Velvet Duck, Surf Duck, Scoter Duck, Eider Duck, Great May 
White Wing (this is the bird that comes from the east and flies 
to the west in its spring migration in May, from the 10th to the 
30th, and is seen at no other time of year), Golden Eye (or Whist- 
