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LEWISES WOODPECKER. 



to Science and to their country. It was the request and particu- 

 lar wish of Captain Lewis, made to me in person, that I should 

 make drawings of such of the feathered tribes as had been pre- 

 served, and were new. That brave soldier, that amiable and ex- 

 cellent man, over whose solitary grave in the wilderness I have 

 since shed tears of affliction, having been cut off in the prime of 

 his life, I hope I shall be pardoned for consecrating this humble 

 note to his memory, until a more able pen shall do better justice 

 to the subject. 



