President Jefferson was a very wise man, and as soon as he had bought all this land he wanted to know about it.

So he sent an expedition to explore it, under two brave captains named Lewis and Clark.

They were gone almost three years; and one day,--I remember now, it was the sixth of June, 1806,--when they were camping in what is now Idaho, near the border of Oregon, they found this lovely bird, and wrote a description of it in their note-books--just as you did with your Scarlet Tanager, Dodo, only theirs was the first one anybody ever wrote.

They also saved the specimen and afterward gave it to Alexander Wilson, who painted the first picture of it, and named it the Louisiana Tanager in his book." "Did you ever see one alive, Uncle Roy ?" asked Nat; "what does it look like flying ?" "I can answer that question," said Olive; "don't you remember, father, when we were in Colorado, the same year we found the Sage Thrasher and Rock Wren, that I thought the first one we saw was a Scarlet Tanager in one of its patch-work plumages, till you told me about it--though it did seem to be too bright yellow, and the middle of the back was black.

But it looked the same size, and flew just the same.