. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . saw onesmall flock at the upper end of the lake so close in shore that withthe glass he could distinctly see the crescent-shaped spots on thecheeks of the two old males, which were in high breeding plumage. 124 WILD AXLMALS OF ULAClEK NATIONAL BuFFLE-iiEAn: Charitoiicfta alheoIa.—Mv. Bryant once found anest in a stump on a flat of Dutch Creek, Avhich he identified fromthe eggs as that of a bullle-hoad, but tlie h\vd was not seen and nonests were found in the marsh bordering the hdce. Mv. St
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . saw onesmall flock at the upper end of the lake so close in shore that withthe glass he could distinctly see the crescent-shaped spots on thecheeks of the two old males, which were in high breeding plumage. 124 WILD AXLMALS OF ULAClEK NATIONAL BuFFLE-iiEAn: Charitoiicfta alheoIa.—Mv. Bryant once found anest in a stump on a flat of Dutch Creek, Avhich he identified fromthe eggs as that of a bullle-hoad, but tlie h\vd was not seen and nonests were found in the marsh bordering the hdce. Mv. Stevensonsays the buflle-head is connnon in the park in spi-ing and hite fall, but he has never seen either nestor young. His father noAvsuspects that it breedsnear Sherburne Lake. Themounted bird to be seen atLewiss came from the Mid-dle Fork of the the St. INIary Lakes, found it, like theBarrow golden-eje, among„,„„,, the last to leave. Fig. 31.—Buffle-head. ^ . ., ^, .^.^ ■,, On Aprd 21, 1918, found many Hocks of buffle-heads on Lake jNIcDonald. usuallyAvith large flocks or in the great assemblies of mixed species of a distance, he says, they looked like pure white balls—snowballs—floating on the water. AVesterx Harlequin Duck: nhtrionicus hlstrionlcus faclfcus.—The western for
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