William Clark: September 7, 1804
7th of September Monday 1804 — Dried all our wet articles, this fine Day, Capt. Lewis went out with a View to See the Countrey and its productions, he was out all day he killed a Buffalow and a remarkable Bird (Magpy) of the Corvus Species long tail the upper part of the feathers & also the wings is of a purplish variated Green, the back & a part of the wing feathers are white edged with black, white belly, the head neck breast & other parts are black the Beeke like a Crow, abt. the Size of a large Pigion. a butifull thing. Capt. Lewis saw a hare & killed a Rattle snake in a village of Barking Squirels.
Source: Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1904–05). Public domain.
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