. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. BIRDS. 169 one or the other of our guests at the lunch hour was part of a tongue sandwich. The nutcrackers' more natural feeding habits are described by Mr. Higginson from Stanton Lake, where he spent the winter. " They were common," he wrote, " on the high ridges and seen frequently at our camp, but never lower down. They were for the most part in flocks of from six to a dozen, sometimes in pairs, but never apparently single. Often during a cold afternoon one Avonld he
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. BIRDS. 169 one or the other of our guests at the lunch hour was part of a tongue sandwich. The nutcrackers' more natural feeding habits are described by Mr. Higginson from Stanton Lake, where he spent the winter. " They were common," he wrote, " on the high ridges and seen frequently at our camp, but never lower down. They were for the most part in flocks of from six to a dozen, sometimes in pairs, but never apparently single. Often during a cold afternoon one Avonld hear their harsh cry and going out of the cabin find a little liunch at work on one of the large fir trees which were near by. TTnlike the jays, they usually began at the top of the trees and worked down to the bottom. If distiu'bed, they would fly off to the nearest dead tree and, sitting on its topmost limbs, utter their opinion of us in very powerful lan- ; Family ICTERIDiE: Blackbirds, etc. Sagebrush Cowbied: Molotliruft afcr artemJs'w.—In the horse pas- ture of Many Glaciers 13 cowbirds were seen July 11 walking about among a group of horses, rising and following as they started away. In the wooded creek bottom near bv, a striped female in the top of a dead spruce called loudly until her brown- headed, glossy black mate joined her; Avhen thejr sat looking around while a 3'ellow warbler and a Maryland j^ello-w-throat sang. Were the soi'ry pair, in search of orphanages, taking notes? Here were two small birds in whose nests an extra egg or two might safely be left. Were they waiting for the songsters to go to their nests or merely locating the families before making a detaded inspection of likely bushes ? The rope corral at camp where our horses were fed attracted the cowbirds, and when we broke camp one of them followed our pack outfit for more than a mile. At a subsequent camp on Belly Eiver two other cowbirds made themselves at home in the corral, nonchalantly
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