As noted in the last Bulletin, the writer spent the last half of June on 

 the coast to the north, following his usual avocation of securing photographs 

 of hirds. Gardiner's Island. N. Y., and the islands of Martha's Vineyard, 

 Muskeget and Nantucket, Mass., were visited, but no pictures were secured 

 on the last-named. The first three localities had been visited previously and 

 the principal forms of bird life photographed with "still" cameras, the result 

 being that on the present trip the motion picture outfit was used to the almost 

 entire exclusion of the other three cameras. In all, two thousand feet of film 

 were exposed, illustrating pretty thoroughly the home-life and nesting habits 

 of the fish hawk, common tern or sea-swallow, laughing gull and least tern. 

 A few odd "takes" of the young of such birds as the spotted sandpiper and 

 piping plover and a number of "feet" of adult barn swallows were also made. 



The taking of motion pictures of wild life under natural conditions is in 

 many ways much more difficult than securing "still" pictures. The operator 

 must always be with his instrument in order to turn the crank, while with a 

 "still" camera many excellent pictures may be made by the use of a long 

 thread to spring the shutter. The noise of the mechanism in the motion 

 picture machine startles some of the more nervous subjects, and the uncer- 

 tainty of predicting a bird's movements while in the field of focus makes it 

 hard to be sure of a continuity of action. 



It is hoped that these motion pictures of Atlantic coast bird life may 

 be shown before the members of the Association during the coming winter 

 season. H. H. C. 



The writer spent three days of a week's leave of absence during June 

 m and around Providence, R. I., visiting the Roger Williams Park Museum 

 and the Rhode Island School of Design, where many courtesies were received 

 from the staff of these two institutions. 



The Museum is located in the heart of a beautiful park, several miles 

 from the center of the city, where the birds are so abundant that the curator 

 has only to go a few yards from the back entrance of the building to be 

 able to photograph many life history scenes with which to illustrate his lec- 

 tures to children during the winter season. As with our own museum, these 

 lectures are strongly featured, and are popular and well attended. The Park 

 Museum, through its reciprocal relations with the State Audubon Society, has 

 the use of a large number of lantern slides and of popular books on birds and 

 other natural history subjects which belong to the Audubon Society, this ar- 

 rangement making possible a much larger choice of lecture subjects than we 

 can compass with our limited collection of slides. 



A small but perfect model of a Southern New England Indian village 

 forms one of the most interesting exhibits in the museum, which arouses a de- 

 sire to see a similar model illustrating the domestic life of our Staten Island 

 Leni Lenapes installed as an addition to our permanent Indian exhibit. 



The museum connected with the School of Design contains many beau- 

 tiful and rare examples of art objects, but probably the most interesting, be- 

 cause the most unique feature of this museum, is the Pendleton House, so- 

 called, which is a typical colonial house, connected by a doorway with the 

 other galleries, and built especially to contain the collection of old mahogany 

 furniture, china, etc., presented to the school by Mr. Pendleton, and arranged, 

 not as a museum exhibit, but as a beautifully furnished home of the Georgian 

 colonial period. 



In this museum, as well as in almost all others through the country, 

 stress is being laid on the instruction of the school children; the plan here 

 being along the more personal lines of Docent service in the galleries, rather 

 than by formal lectures. 



Much could be written about the large and interesting plant of the 

 School of Design, which is the third largest in the country, and which pro- 

 vides so much practical training for artisans that it might be called a voca- 

 tional school as well as a school of design ; but the limited space of our Museum 

 Bulletin does not permit a longer description of the many suggestive and 

 interesting details gathered during this brief visit. A. L. P. 



Entered as 2d-class matter in P.O. at New Brighton, N.T., under Act of Congress, July 16, 1904 



