. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . ate num-bers. Many were also seen along the North Fork of the Flatheadbetween April 11 and 21. INfr. Higginson, when collecting just outside the park, wrote: Sixbirds—two males and four females (or young)—stayed around51140°—18 10 116 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. Stanton Lake all winter long. \Yhen the lake froze np they wentup the creek, swimming about in the big pools. No wild fowl of anyother kind came into the lake from NoA^ember 15 to February Bryant has taken merganser eggs
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . ate num-bers. Many were also seen along the North Fork of the Flatheadbetween April 11 and 21. INfr. Higginson, when collecting just outside the park, wrote: Sixbirds—two males and four females (or young)—stayed around51140°—18 10 116 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. Stanton Lake all winter long. \Yhen the lake froze np they wentup the creek, swimming about in the big pools. No wild fowl of anyother kind came into the lake from NoA^ember 15 to February Bryant has taken merganser eggs on Stanton Lake, so the birdsare doubtless resident. The mergansers liaAe the interesting habit of fishing in smallbands, and their maneuvers will repay close observation. Eed-breasted Merganser: Mergiis serrator.—Late in October,1887, Dr. Grinnell found red-breasted mergansers, with the long,hairlike crests, in company with a large variety of waterfowl, abun-dant on the Low^er St. Mary Lake, and Mr. Gird reports them asfound in spring, summer, and fall between Waterton Creek and the. From Handbook of Birds of the Western United States, Fig. 21.—Red-breasted merganser. North Fork of the Flathead on the west and Belly River on the eastside of the park. Mr. F. F. Liebig has a specimen taken on LakeMcDonald some years ago. These mergansers also hunt in companies, as ISIr. E. H. Eatondescribes it, sometimes advancing w^ith wide, extended front, driv-ing the fish before them and diving simultaneously so that, which-ever way their prey may dart, there is a serrated beak and capaciousgullet ready to receive them. Hooded ]\Ierganser: Lophodytes cuciillatus.—Mr. Stevenson re-ports seeing the hooded merganser, with the white-centered, wheel-shaped crest, mostly in spring and fall, in ones or twos on smallponds, but Mr. Bryant says that it breeds on the Middle Fork of the BIRDS. 117 Flathead and is great for laying eggs in the nests with golden-eyesand buffle-heads and then s
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