Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Supplement to the Birds of Rhode Island The present supplement compiled over three years after the publication of The Birds of Rhode Island in October, 1899, endeavors to bring up to date the present knowledge of Rhode Island avifauna, and to correct that work both in misstatements and typographical errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.