[147] Independence Creek owes its name to Lewis and Clark, who reached this point on July 4, 1804. Its mouth is on the line between Atchison and Doniphan counties, Kansas. Lewis and Clark named another small stream, fifteen miles below, Fourth of July Creek. They also visited the site of the Indian village here mentioned, and thought it must have been a large one, judging from the remains.--ED. [148] The color is due to the presence of yellow ochre.--ED. [149] For data relative to the Nodaway River, see Bradbury's _Travels_, in our volume v, note 5.--ED. [150] The name of Wolf River or Creek (Rivière du Loup of early French maps), is a translation of the Indian name. The stream debouches four miles below the town of Iowa Point, in Doniphan County, Kansas.--ED. [151] _Sciurus macrurus._ SAY.--_Body_ above each side, mixed gray and black; fur plumbeous, black at base, then pale cinnamon, then black, then cinereous, with a long black tip; _ears_ bright ferruginous behind, the colour extending to the base of the fur, which, in its winter dress, is prominent beyond the edge; within dull ferruginous, the fur slightly tipped with black; _side of the head and orbits_ pale ferruginous, cheek under the eye and ear dusky; _whiskers_ black, in about five series, of which the four inferior ones are more distinct, hairs a little flattened; _mouth_ margined with black; _teeth_ reddish yellow; _head_ beneath, _neck_ and _feet_ above pale ferruginous; _belly_ paler; fur pale plumbeous at base; _palms_ black; _toes_, anterior ones four, the thumb tubercle not longer than its lobe in the palm, and furnished with a broad flat nail; posterior toes five; _tail_ beneath bright ferruginous, the colour extending to the base of the fur, with a submarginal black line; above mixed ferruginous and black; fur within pale cinnamon, with the base and three bands black; tip ferruginous. ft. in. From nose to tip of tail (exclusive of the hair) 1 7-1/4 Tail, from base to tip (exclusive of the hair) 9-1/10 Ear, from head to tip 0-3/4 The most common species of squirrel on the banks of the Missouri river. It is allied to _S. cinereus_, but cannot be considered as a variety of that species; neither does it approach any of the numerous varieties of the very variable _S. capistratus_ of Bosc.