Tuesday March 4th 1806.

the Anchovey is so delicate that they soon become tainted unless pickled or smoked.

they coock their sturgeon by means of vapor or steam.
Meriwether Lewis

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

It rained hard all last night, & continued the same during the whole of this day.
Nothing material happened at the fort worth mentioning.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

they coock their sturgeon by means of vapor or steam...
a bisk fire is kindled on which a parcel of stones are lad....
the sturgeon which had been previously cut into large fletches is now laid on the hot stones;
a parsel of small boughs of bushes is next laid on and a second course of the sturgeon....
it is next covered closely with matts and water is poared in such manner as to run in among the hot stones and the vapor arrising being confined by the mats, cooks the fish.
the whole process is performed in an hour, and the sturgeon thus cooked is much better than either boiled or roasted.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

The turtle dove and robbin are the same of our country and are found as well in the plain as open country.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

the Columbian robbin heretofore discribed seems to be the inhabitant of the woody country exclusively.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

The Magpy is most commonly found in the open country and are the same with those formerly discribed on the Missouri.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

the large woodpecker or log cock, the lark woodpecker and the small white woodpecker with a read head are the same with those of the Atlantic states and are found excelusively in the timbered country.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

The blue crested Corvus and the small white breasted do have been previously discribed and are the natives of a piney country invariably, being found as well on the rocky mountains as on this coast.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

the lark is found in the plains only and are the same with those before mentioned on the Missouri, and not very unlike what is called in Virginia the old field lark.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

The large blueish brown or sandhill Crain are found in the valley of the Rocky mountains in Summer and Autumn where they raise their young, and in the winter and begining of spring on this river below tidewater and on this coast.
they are the same as those common to the Southern and Western States where they are most generally known by the name of the Sandhill crain.
-Meriwether Lewis-

Tuesday March 4th 1806.

there are two species of the fly-catch, a small redish brown species with a short tail, round body, short neck and short pointed beak.
they have some fine black specks intermixed with the uniform redish brown.
this the same with that which remains all winter in Virginia where it is sometimes called the wren.
-Meriwether Lewis-