. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 192 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIEB. NATIONAL PAEK. ally the two-syllabled ta-tih' was given, but generally it was the long scolding chatter. When finally relieved of our pi'esence the parents expressed their feelings in various low notes followed by their sweet tinkling song. The nest of the wrens is described by Mr. Stevenson as " a small oven made of moss on the side of a rotten ; One of the winter wrens was seen by Mr. Gibb in July on Lake Josephine, and Mr. Bryant, of Calif
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 192 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIEB. NATIONAL PAEK. ally the two-syllabled ta-tih' was given, but generally it was the long scolding chatter. When finally relieved of our pi'esence the parents expressed their feelings in various low notes followed by their sweet tinkling song. The nest of the wrens is described by Mr. Stevenson as " a small oven made of moss on the side of a rotten ; One of the winter wrens was seen by Mr. Gibb in July on Lake Josephine, and Mr. Bryant, of California, when in the park heard them in many places and found them " much in evidence along Lake McDonald and McDonald ; Mr. E. S. Bryant says they are common all winter. In April, 1918, Mr. Bailey found them " singing in many places along the way," up the Xorth Fork of the Flathead, and says: " One was living under some logs of the road grade on the Fish Creek hill, where four feet of snow covered his dark, cold den. He Avould come out and bubble away as if the flowers were blooming, tlien dive back into the black caverns under the snow ;. Photograph by R. B. Rockwell. Fig. 90.—Young Rocky Mountain nuthatches. Family CERTHIID^: Creepers. Rocky Motintain Creeper: Certhia famillaris montana.—The little bark-colored creeper, rocking up to the top of one tree trunk and then flying down to the foot of another to start over again in his search for bark insects, may be easily overlooked in the dense coni- ferous forest; but his small beady note on the order of the wax- wings, when once heard will readily place him. Only one was seen, but a number were heard during the summer in various parts of the park. Family SITTID.^: Nuthatches. Rocky Mountain Nuthatch: Sltfa carolinensis 7icho»i.—The small short-tailed bluish gray bird with black crown and plain white. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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