Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones (1918) (14768548183)

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Title: Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: United States. National Park Service Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 Bailey, Florence Augusta (Merriam), Mrs, 1863-
Subjects: Mammals Birds
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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I heard one of these birds, and looking out discoveredhim sitting on a little rock in the middle of an icy mountain streampouring forth his song at the very top of his little lungs. Manypeople do not know what a sweet song the dipper possesses, as sweeta strain as one often hears, poured out with all the subdued energyof the winter wren, whose song it sometimes resembles. The hardy little musicians are early builders. On April 21, 1918,Mr. Bailey found a pair carrying building material under the FishCreek log bridge near Lake INIcDonald, and the next day found a pairlining their nearly completed nest in a niche of the rock Avnll belowthe falls on McDonald Creek, where he had found two old nests theprevious summer. Family MIMID^: Mockingbirds, Catbirds, etc. CATmRo: Dumetella carolinen-^h.—At the upper St. Mary Lake,July 21, when looking for now and strange harlequin ducks, I wassurprised to come face to face with a homelike catbird, with slate- Wild Animals Glacier Park. PLATE XXXV.
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Courtesy oi Nalioual Association of Audubon Societies. CATBIRDS AT NEST. BIRDS. 191 gray body and black croAAn and tail, sitting in the bushes on thelake shore, looking conscious of observation, but unafraid. The bird has been seen by Mr. Bryant, both in the park and on theFlathead, and in June, 1895. Messrs. Bailey and Howell reported oneor two seen on Willow Creek near the Blackfeet Agency, now Brown-ing. Family TROGLODYTID^E: Wrens. EocK Wren: Salpiiictes ohsoletus ohsoletus.—Although the rockwren is mainly a bird of warmer zones, it has been reported by somany observers that it should be sharply looked for. Its wrennishfigure and graduated tail with subterminal band of black, held likea spread fan tilted up at its back, are enough to identify it. Dr. Grinnell writes me that he has an impression that he has seenit on the east side of the park, and the botanist, Mr. Marcus E. Jones,unqualifiedly records seeing it among the rocks. Mr. Bryant hasnever collected it. but feels confide