. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . own and over eye were seen, July T, betweenGlacier Park Hotel and St. Mary Lake: July 21, at the Upper ; August 5, on the Swiftcurrent Flats; August 13, along BellyRiver; and August 27, above Lake McDonald. They are also reportedby Mr. Bryant from the prairie patches on the Avest side of the park,and Mr. Bailey found several of them on Big Prairie, April 18, wherethey seemed much at home on the fences and in the grassy fields. Western Lark Sparrow: Chondestesgraminacus strlgatus.—In speakin
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . own and over eye were seen, July T, betweenGlacier Park Hotel and St. Mary Lake: July 21, at the Upper ; August 5, on the Swiftcurrent Flats; August 13, along BellyRiver; and August 27, above Lake McDonald. They are also reportedby Mr. Bryant from the prairie patches on the Avest side of the park,and Mr. Bailey found several of them on Big Prairie, April 18, wherethey seemed much at home on the fences and in the grassy fields. Western Lark Sparrow: Chondestesgraminacus strlgatus.—In speaking ofthe birds seen on the prairie patches ofthe Xorth Fork of the Flathead, says, I have never had the birdin hand, but I am sure I ha^e seen thewestern lark sparrow. The chestnutpatch and black and white streaks onthe side of the head, together with thewhite tail corners, make it an easy birdto recognize. White-CROW NED Sparrow: Zono-From Biological Survey. (Fuertes). frkhia Uucophrys.—The h a u d s o m c 1 y FIG. sparrow, marked whitc-crown is one of the most. BIRDS. 177 abundant and generally distributed birds of the park, its grave, sweetsong being heard from the level of the prairie to timberline, and fromthe southern entrance of the park to the Canadian boundtry. Its fourslow, clear notes are followed by grace notes that in some renderingsseem rather out of keeping, but in the best renderings seem the neces-sary counterpart and completion of the first part of the song. Accord-ing to the setting the song suggests various phrasings, as Clearmount-ain hrool, there-it-is; Oh see the firs, see-see-see-seey AtSexton Glacier, where we were studying the glacier front with itsirregularly flattened and compressed annual layers, the song rang inour ears till it seems to say, Oh see the ice, say-see-see; Oh see theice, say-see-seef^ but where no especial phrase was suggested by thelandscape, the words • High up. high vp, see-see,^ seemed to fit theco
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