LOUISIANA TANAGER. 
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Its maimers “thong'll neither .its hill nor tongue — 
partake very much of those of the flycatcher; for I 
have frequently observed both male and female, a little 
before sunset, in parts of the forest clear of underwood, 
darting after winged insects, and continuing thus 
engaged till it w r as almost dusk. 
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157 . TANAGRA LUBOVICIANA, WILSON. — LOUISIANA TANAGER., 
WILSON, PLATE XX. FIG. I. 
This bird, together with Clark’s crow r , and Lewis’s 
woodpecker, as has already been mentioned, were 
discovered, in the remote regions of Louisiana, by the 
exploring party under the command of Captain George 
Merriwether Levris, and Lieutenant, now General, 
William Clark, in their memorable expedition across 
the continent to the Pacific Ocean. 
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 a drawing. Its size 
and markings were as follow : — Length, six inches and 
a half ; back, tail, and wings, black ; the greater wing- 
coverts, tipt w ith yellow ; the next superior row', 
w holly yellow r ; neck, rump, tail-coverts, and w hole low er 
parts, greenish yellow ; forepart of the head, to and 
beyond the eyes, light scarlet; bill, yellowish 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 already described ; but evidently a different 
species, from the black back, and yellow coverts. Some 
of the feathers on the upper part of the back w^ere also 
skirted with yellow. A skin of w hat I supposed to be 
the female, or a young bird, differed in having the 
w r ings and back brownish, and in being rather less. 
The family, or genus, to which this bird belongs, is 
