. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. BIEDS. 191 gray body and black crown and tail, sitting in the bushes on the lake shore, looking conscious of observation, but unafraid. The bird has been seen by Mr. Bryant, both in the park and on the Flathead, and in June, 1895, Messrs. Bailey and Howell reported one or two seen on Willow Creek near the Blackfeet Agency, now Brown- ing. Family TROGLODYTID^: Wrens. EocK Ween: Salpinctes ohsoletus ohsoletus.—Although the rock wren is mainly a bird of warmer zones, it has been reported
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. BIEDS. 191 gray body and black crown and tail, sitting in the bushes on the lake shore, looking conscious of observation, but unafraid. The bird has been seen by Mr. Bryant, both in the park and on the Flathead, and in June, 1895, Messrs. Bailey and Howell reported one or two seen on Willow Creek near the Blackfeet Agency, now Brown- ing. Family TROGLODYTID^: Wrens. EocK Ween: Salpinctes ohsoletus ohsoletus.—Although the rock wren is mainly a bird of warmer zones, it has been reported by so many observers that it should be sharply looked for. Its wrennish figure and graduated tail with subterminal band of black, held like a spread fan tilted up at its back, are enough to identify it. Dr. Grinnell writes me that he has an impression that he has seen it on the east side of the park, and the botanist, Mr. Marcus E. Jones, unqualifiedly records seeing it " among the ; Mr. Bryant has never collected it, but feels confident that he has seen it, as do Mr. Gibb and Mr. Gird. Western House Ween : Troglo- dytes aidon -parkmani.—The house wren was found August 5 on Swift- current Creek, a mile below Many Glaciers, singing volubly and acting interested in a hole in a stub. ISIr. Gibb says a number of the wrens are seen around Lewis's on Lake Mc- Donald. Westeen Wintee Ween : Nannus hiemalis pacificus.—Along the Gun- sight Trail we heard the tinkling song of the little bobtailed winter wren coming from a dark thicket in the mossy woods; and again at Wall Lake, before a thunderstorm had cleared, the gloom of the well- like cirque and its black water bordered hy dark spruce woods was relieved by the sprightly song of the jolly little wren. But not until we were following the bear-tracked Kootenai trail thi'ough the dark Engelmann spruce forest did we get our first sight of the brown mite. On the trail beside some fallen logs we were ar- rested by its
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