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lewis’s woodfeckee. 
I The leno-th of this was eleven inches and a half ; the 
wings, and tail were black, with a strong gloss 
'f.S''een;” upper part of the head, the same; front, 
f 'n, and cheeks, beyond the eyes, a dark rich red ; 
the neck passes a broad collar of white, which 
5l*'''^ads over the breast, and looks as if the fibres of the 
'''Others had been silvered : these feathers are also of a 
{'“'ticular structure, the fibres being separate, and of a 
^‘‘''•-like texture; belly, deep vermilion, and of the 
‘“'he stronn- hair-like feathers, intermixed with silvery 
vent’, black; legs and feet, dusky, inclining to 
^^^nisii blue ; bill, dark horn colour. 
vor a more particular, and doubtless a more correct 
f>unt of this and the others, the reader is referred to 
P^'ieral Chu-k’s History of the Expedition. The three 
I shaU introduce, are but a small part of the valuable 
^^^lection of new subjects in natural history, discovered 
Preserved, amidst a thousand dangers and difliculties 
7 these two enterprizing travellers, whose intrepidity 
only equalled by their discretion, and by their active 
q laborious pursuit of whatever might tend to render 
journey useful to science .md to their country. It 
. the request and particular wish of Captain Lewis, 
to me in person, that I should make drawings of such 
‘ the feathered tribes as had been preserved, and were 
K®"- That brave soldier, that amiable and excellent 
.■’ll, Over whose solitary grave in the wilderness I have 
. shed tears of affliction, having been cut off m the 
of his life, I hope I shall be pardoned for conse- 
jiT'ng this humble note to his memory, until a more 
pen shall do better justice to the subject. 
