PREFACE. 
Tuis volume on the Birds of Rhode Island, containing the first 
complete list of the birds of the State, is offered with the hope 
that it will lead to the further study of ornithology within Rhode 
Island, and that it will give a basis on which to build such work. 
The authors here wish to express their sincere thanks to Lieut. 
‘ Wirt Robinson, 4th U. S. Artillery, West Point, New York, Col. 
J. H. Powel of Newport, Dr. Wm. C. Rives of New York, Messrs. 
H. S. Hathaway of Cranston, F. T. Jencks of Drownville, J. M. 
Southwick, Newton Dexter, F. E. Newbury, C. H. Smith, E. H. 
Armstrong of Providence, George W. Field of Kingston, Owen 
Durfee of Fall River, Mass., Glover M. Allen of Intervale, New 
Hampshire, Walter Faxon of Arlington, Mass., H. W. H. Powel, 
Le Roy King of Newport, William Brewster, Walter Deane of 
Cambridge, Mass., Miss Louisa Sturtevant of Newport, and many 
others. 
REGINALD HEBER HOWE, Jr. 
EDWARD STURTEVANT. 
RHODE ISLAND, 
October, 1899. 
