APR 16 1901 
NOTES ON RHODE ISLAND ORNITHOLOGY. 

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Notes oN RHODE ISLAND ORNITHOLOGY, a quarterly publication for 
the purpose of furthering interest in ornithology in the State of Rhode 
_ Island. Published and edited by Reginald Heber Howe, Junior. Address, 
Longwood, Brookline, Massachusetts. 
Terms, one dollar ($1.00) a year. Single numbers, twenty-five cents. 
(25). 
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should be sent to the Editor. 

The subscribers to ‘ Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology’ with but a few 
exceptions have renewed their subscriptions for the year 1901, thus showing 
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is doing. It is hoped that those who have not as yet renewed their sub- 
_ scription will do so at once, that the paper may fulfill more thoroughly its 
__‘-purpose. 
\ The Editor wishes to thank Mrs. Le Roy King of Newport, Mrs. 
William Gammel of Providence, and Mrs. H. L. Russell of East Green- 
wich, for their liberality and public spirit in making it possible for 
him to send this publication to twelve of the larger public libraries of 
Rhode Island, both for the past and the current year. 

_ WINTER BIRDS OF LAKE WORDEN, WASHINGTON 
i COUNTY, RHODE ISLAND— NOVEMBER 21 TO 
DECEMBER 24, Ig00. 
BY EDGAR A. MEARNS, M. D. 
Durinc the period covered by these observations I was dom- 
iciled at Lake Cottage, a boarding-house located at the mouth of 
Mink Brook, in the township of South Kingston. The proprietor, 
_ Mr. Lorenzo A. Knowles, is quite familiar with the birds of the 
3 region, and imparted much information respecting the birds of 
_ other seasons and former years. He showed me mounted speci- 
% mens of the Scarlet Tanager and Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
_ which he had taken at Lake Worden. Among the facts of in- 
_ terest learned from him are the presence in summer of a breeding 
_ colony of Cliff Swallows on the farm of Mr. Clark, a near neighbor ; 
and, according to Mr. Knowles and his son (Mr. John Kenyon 
Knowles), the Passenger Pigeon (£ctopistes migratorius) is still 
