Show se E H lal EGGS WORTH MUCH MONEY ne reel Barest of all the eggs of a still ex werr to nt family of birds Is that laid by tter toPoll condor At the present moment Poll e is not in existence one single uoitf en perfect specimens and the few o are can he teen solely in some ndj the wealthiest and richest collec mtt s The condor which Is found in You t i i a thorn California and the Andes is them hopelessly doomed to die out It Iso practically impossible to collect fresh specimens of Its eggs as ned Ise rare and extremely shy birds t thousands of feet above tho omen Sns In the most rugged and line ns r Bible fastnesses of tho San Ber ne B tdlno and San Jnclnto mountains In hlti nee finding and plundering a cons tsyer con-s nest is regarded as a wonderful sensational event A prize of 500 fidd not tempt any sane man to start on the hunt for a fresh condor egg > r ttej Still more costly are the eggs of the feat auk or garcfowl a flightless m fc Irine bird with large head heavy py and compact plumage the last Well living specimens of which were Welt covered and killed In Iceland in me 4 Ono of these eggs Is now to be en carefully preserved under a glass case In the National museum at Washington The original owner sold it in London for c il 110 In 1851 whereas Its present value Is estimated at memo than 10000 In 1S53 two other auks eggs were sold In London for c85 425 apiece while in 18 jU Lord Caervagli paid c74 370 for a damaged specimen A Scotchman of the name of Powell got to of these eggs in Edinburgh In 1879 for 32 shillings shil-lings A few weeks afterward he sold them for c210 1200 each At the present time thero are only from seventy to eighty specimens l known to bo still In existence Twelve of these arc In the British museum This bird died out because of Its Inability In-ability to fiy and of tho difficulty of Its movements upon dry land It used to nest in thousands on Funk Island a rocky islet opposite the coast of Newfoundland New-foundland which at ono time was used as a kind of provisioning station by whalers who used l to kill these fat and palatable birds In hundreds The birds were knocked on tho head with clubs plucked the feathers used to fetch a good priceand salted for future consumption con-sumption |