8 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 
page 16. This list, for it hardly amounts to anything more 
than that, mentions forty-two species. Mr. Howe published 
in the Bristol Phoenix for April roth, 1896, an annotated list 
of the birds of that township, observed by him. This article, 
called “A List of the Birds of Bristol, R. I., and Adjacent 
Localities,’’ contains, beside annotations on sixty-seven species, 
a short account of the topography of Bristol, with a map showing 
wooded areas. Ina book by the same author, entitled ‘On the 
Bird’s Highway,” 1899, there is in the appendix, an unannotated 
list of the birds observed at Bristol, R. I. A series of articles 
were published in the Providence Journal entitled “ Birds during 
January” and “February,” issue of February 7, 1884, and 
“ Birds during March” and ‘“ April,” issue of April 7, 1884, by 
Mr. F. T. Jencks. An article called ‘Rhode Island Birds,” 
by Mr. J. M. Southwick, was published in the same paper on 
February 28, 1892, and another article, under the same title, by 
Mr. N. W. Wright, on September .25, 1898. These, papers © 
cover the special literature on the birds of Rhode Island except 
for the minor records which have appeared from time to time 
in The Auk, Nuttall Bulletin, Random Notes, etc., of which 
there are exceptionally few." 
COLLECTIONS. 
There are a number of well known ornithological collections 
within the State containing birds taken in Rhode Island. The 
best no doubt is the one at Roger Williams Park, Providence, 
under the curatorship of Mr. J. M. Southwick. This has been 
assembled by Mr. C. H. Smith of Providence, and presented by 
him to the city. During the summer of 1899, this collection was 
installed with other Rhode Island State collections of Zoology 
and Mineralogy. The collection of some three hundred and 
fifty specimens is intended to represent all species known to have 
occurred within the State, and contains many of the rare Rhode 
Island captures, reference to which are given in the annotated list. 
‘See Bibliography. 
