. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . Photo, by J. Rowley. Courtesy of Bird-Lore. Fig. 88.—Water ouzel at eniranco to uost. the Swiftcurrent—only a few steps from Many Glaciers Hotel—where trains of saddle horses and automobile stages go rushing by, apair of the short-tailed gray water wrens were seen flying swiftlylow over the water on their way back and forth between their feed-ing grounds along the lake above and their nest at the foot of thewaterfall below. And from the top of the gorge, marking the his- Wild Animals Glacier Park.
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . Photo, by J. Rowley. Courtesy of Bird-Lore. Fig. 88.—Water ouzel at eniranco to uost. the Swiftcurrent—only a few steps from Many Glaciers Hotel—where trains of saddle horses and automobile stages go rushing by, apair of the short-tailed gray water wrens were seen flying swiftlylow over the water on their way back and forth between their feed-ing grounds along the lake above and their nest at the foot of thewaterfall below. And from the top of the gorge, marking the his- Wild Animals Glacier Park. PLATE BIEDS. 189 toric Lewis Overthrnst Fault of the map, the ouzel was watchedthrough the ghiss flying clown over the white roaring waterfall, turn-ing a shielding point of rock, and buzzing like a hummingbird infront of a ledge before the open mouth of a domed mossy nest fromwhich, with a noisy Avelcome, Avidely gaping yellow bills reacheddown to be fed. Then off like a flash, the eager parent flew OAerthe frothing SAvirling water and through the wind-blown spraj^ backup the tumbling falls to its hunting ground on the lake above. Wlien tired perhaps by strenuously climbing waterfalls, one ofthe pair went hunting below along the bank of the creek, andan observer new to water ouzels and their strange ways, catchingthe enthusiasm of first-hand knowledge, exclaimed excitedly, ZTe■we7it right doicii under icater! He went down under waterP AVhen.,lured b}^ some tempting morsel at the bottom of the creek, the littlewater wren, secure in his oilskin suit, does go below in this waj, heoften swim
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