Lewis: August 25, 1804
On August 25, 1804, Lewis and his party returned from visiting the so-called Mound of Spirits. Along the way, they spotted the first bats they had seen since beginning their ascent of the Missouri River. About two miles south, near a creek that runs past the mound, they also observed an unfamiliar heron-like bird, roughly the size of a cormorant, with short tail, long legs, and deep copper-brown plumage tinged with red. Unable to shoot the bird, Lewis could not describe it in further detail.
August the 25th on our return from the mound of sperits saw the first bats
that we had observed since we began to ascend the Missouri
also saw on our return on the Creek that passes this mound about 2 M.
distant S. a bird of heron kind as large as the Cormorant short tale long
leggs of a colour on the back and wings deep copper brown with a shade of
red. we could not kill it therefore I can not describe it more
particularly.
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August 25th. On our return from the Mound of Spirits, we saw the first bats we had observed since we began to ascend the Missouri.
We also saw, on our return, on the creek that passes this mound about 2 miles south, a bird of the heron kind as large as the cormorant. It had a short tail and long legs, and was colored on the back and wings a deep copper brown with a shade of red. We could not kill it, therefore I cannot describe it more particularly.
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