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brought home, may there see for himself what 
fine handsome creatures they are. 
But then comes the question—how are they 
to be obtained, and how brought to England? [I 
do not imagine it would be a very difficult or 
expensive matter; the young birds in May could 
be easily obtained, at any point up the Columbia 
river, by employing the Indians to bring them to 
the riverside; and once on board steamer, they 
could be as easily fed as fowls. The great dif- 
ficulty £ have always had is in bringing the 
young birds from the interior to a vessel; they 
always die when transported on the backs of 
animals, however carefully packed. The con- 
tinued jerking motion given to birds packed on 
the back of a mule or horse as he walks along 
has, according to my experience, been the sole 
cause of their dying ere you could reach water- 
carriage; but the fact of their being so close to 
water as they are along the Columbia river, would 
render their being brought home avery easy task. 
Tue Bartp-HEADED Eacue (Halvactus leucoce- 
phalus) is seen but seldom, as during its breed- 
ing-time it retires into the hills, and usually 
chooses a lofty pine as its nesting-place. Two 
of them had a nest near the Chilukweyuk lake, 
which was quite inaccessible, of immense size, 
