PREFACE. 



This 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 Crairston, 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 ftEBER HOWE, Jr. 

 EDWARD STURTEVANT. 



Rhode Island, 

 October, 1899. 



