

SPECIES 3. TANA&&A LUDOVICMNrf, 

 LOUISIANA TANAGER. 



[Plate XX. Fig. 1.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 6236. 



THIS bird, and the two others that occupy the same plate, 

 were discovered, in the remote regions of Louisiana, by an ex- 

 ploring party under the command of Captain George Merri- 

 wether Lewis, and Lieutenant, now General, William Clark, 

 in their memorable expedition across the continent to the Pa- 

 cific Ocean. They are entitled to a distinguished place in the 

 pages of AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, both as being, till now, al- 

 together unknown to naturalists, and as natives of what is, or 

 at least ivill be, and that at no distant period, part of the west- 

 ern territory of the United States. 



The frail remains of the bird now under consideration, as 

 well as of the other two, have been set up by Mr. Peale, in his 

 Museum, with as much neatness as the state of the skins would 

 permit. Of three of these, which were put into my hands for 

 examination, the most perfect was selected for the drawing. 

 Its size and markings were as follow. Length six inches and 

 a half; back, tail, and wings black; the greater wing-coverts 

 tipt with yellow, the next superior row wholly yellow; neck, 

 rump, tail-coverts and whole lower parts greenish yellow; fore- 

 part of the head to and beyond the eyes, light scarlet; bill yel- 

 lowish horn colour; edges of the upper mandible ragged, as in the 

 rest of its tribe; legs light blue; tail slightly forked, and edged 

 with dull whitish: the whole figure about the size, and much 

 resembling in shape, the Scarlet Tanager (Plate 11, fig. 3.); but 

 evidently a different species, from the black back, and yellow 

 coverts. Some of the feathers on the upper part of the back were 



