 Gass makes a notable entry at this date, p. 224. " The magpie is also plenty here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker ; but are all black except the belly and neck,...  The Auk - Page 3941892Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Gass - 1847 - 248 pages
...here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker; but are all black except...where the ends of the feathers are tipped with a deep rod, but this tipping extends to so short a distance on the feathers, that at a distance the bird looks... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - 1893 - 494 pages
...here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker ; but are all black except...that at a distance the bird looks wholly black." The point is that here is the original appearance in print of Lewis' woodpecker, four years before it was... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - 1893 - 600 pages
...here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker ; but are all black except...that at a distance the bird looks wholly black." The point is that here is the original appearance in print of Lewis' woodpecker, four years before it was... | |
 | Patrick Gass, James Kendall Hosmer - 1904 - 374 pages
...here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker; but are all black except...feathers, that at a distance the bird looks wholly black. In the afternoon one of the natives came to our camp, and one of the two hunters that were out, returned... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. Dunlay - 1996 - 352 pages
...here, and woodpeckers3 of a different kind from any I had before seen. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker; but are all black except...feathers, that at a distance the bird looks wholly black. In the afternoon one of the natives came to our camp, and one of the two hunters that were out, returned... | |
 | Elliot Coues - 2007 - 561 pages
...here, and woodpeckers of a different kind from any I had before seea. They are about the size of a common red-headed woodpecker ; but are all black except...feathers, that at a distance the bird looks wholly hiack." The point is that here is the original appearance in print of Lewis' woodpecker, four years... | |
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