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Lewis and Clark describe a bird unknown to the scientific community before 1805. By Bill Speiden Date published: 3/18/2006
Part 65 of a series WHILE WAITING OUT a long Capt. Lewis wrote: "this bird is about 2/3rds the size of a turkey. the beak is large short curved and convex. the upper exceeding the lower chap [mandible], the nostrils are large and the bak [beak] black the tail is composed of 19 feathers of which that in the center is the longest, and the remaining nine on each side diminish by pairs as they receede from the center the flesh of the cock of the Plains is dark, and only tolerable in point of flavor " From the Journals, week of Feb. 27, 1806: FEB. 27: "Reubin Fields returned reports that there were no Elk towards point Adams. Collins who had hunted up the Netul [River] on this side returned in the evening having killed a buck Elk " --Capt. Lewis FEB. 28: "Kuskelar a Clatsop man and his wife visited us today brought some Anchovies, Sturgeon, a beaver robe, and some roots for sail [sale] tho' they asked so high a price for every article that we purchased nothing but a part of a sturgeon for which we gave a few fishing hooks ordered hunters to return early in the morning and continue their hunt " MARCH 1: "We had a cloudy wet morning. I set out with 8 men and 4 hunters to bring the meat of the elk that had been killed, which was at a greater distance from the fort than any we had yet brought in. There is a large river that flows into the southeast part of Hailey's Bay; upon which about 20 miles from its mouth, our hunters discovered falls; which has about 60 feet of perpendicular pitch." --Sgt. Gass
Date published: 3/18/2006
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