168 FICUS TORQUATUS. 
wings are black, spotted with white ; the four 
tail feathers, black ; the rest white, spotted with ^ 
riunp, black, variegated with white; the vent,wlii. ’ 
spotted with black ; the hairs that cover the nostr ^ 
are of a pale cream colour ; tlie bill, deep slate. 
what forms the most distiuguishing peculiarity ot th*- 
l)ird, is a fine line of vermilion on each side of the ’ 
seldom occupying more than the edge of a single teathc ^ 
The female is destitute of this ornament ; but, in t > 
rest of her plumage, differs in nothing from the nio 
The iris of the eye, in both, was hazel. ji 
The stomachs of all those I opened were filled n i 
small black insects, and fragments of large beetl 
The posterior extremities of the tongue reached near ) 
to the base of the upper mandible. 
47. rJCCS TOIiQUATUSf wilson. — lewis's WOODYECKEB* 
WILSON, TLATE XX. FIG. III. 
This liird, and one or two others which w ill aft«''' 
wai'ds be given,* were discovered in the remote reginU’ 
of Louisiana, by an exploring party, under tbe comma” 
of Captain George Merriwether Lewis, and Lieutenan ’ 
now General, William Clark, in their memorable , 
dition across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. Tln'^'^^ 
birds are entitled to a distinguished place in the pa?*^, 
of American Ormtholouv, both as being, till »”’’[■ i 
altogether unknown to naturalists, and as natives ^ , 
what is, or, at least will be, and that at no distant pen” ’ | 
])art of the western territory of the United States. . ^ 
Of this very beautiful and singularly marked spee'^j 
I am unable to give any farther account than as rela;^^ 
to its external appearance. Several skins of this sp”®' i 
were preserved, all of which I examined with care, a 
found little or no difference among them, either in ' 
tints or disposition of the colours. 
These are Clark's Crow, and the Louisiana Tanugrf' 
