A RED-HEADED FAMILY. 21 



of white runs across the back when the wings 

 are closed, as in M. erythrocephalus, leaving the 

 wing-tips and tail black. Its feet are ash- 

 blue, its eyes amber-yellow. The female is 

 like the male, save that she has a black crest 

 instead of the scarlet. I can think of nothing 

 in Nature more striking than the flash of color 

 this bird gives to the dreary swamp-landscape, 

 as it careers from tree to tree, or sits upon 

 some high skeleton cypress-branch and plies 

 its resounding blows. The species will prob- 

 ably be extinct within a few years.* 



* Since writing the foregoing, I have made several excursions 

 in search of the ivory -bill. Early in January, 1885, 1 killed a fine 

 male specimen in a swamp near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi ; but 

 was prevented, by an accident, from preserving it or making a 

 sketch of it. 



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