. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . not understanddietetics, for as they went busily about among the flowers and grasses,she left them to their own selection. But it was high noon and timeto go back to the chalet. When I returned in the afternoon a storm 144 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. was coming and my little family had apparently gone to shelter—possibly under a dense mat of evergreen or into a safe cavern undera ledge, for they are said to roost along the edges of coarse rockslides under dwarf evergreens—and greatly to
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . not understanddietetics, for as they went busily about among the flowers and grasses,she left them to their own selection. But it was high noon and timeto go back to the chalet. When I returned in the afternoon a storm 144 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. was coming and my little family had apparently gone to shelter—possibly under a dense mat of evergreen or into a safe cavern undera ledge, for they are said to roost along the edges of coarse rockslides under dwarf evergreens—and greatly to my disappointment,I never saw them again. Another brood of five downy chicks was found by a member ofour party on the crest of the mountain opposite, but in this case therewas melting snow near at hand. A brood of six larger young wasfound near the top of Piegan Pass in August, also in easy reach ofwater, and where there were bunches of red sorrel whose seeds theyoung were eating. On Kootenai Pass still later the turkeylikeherp^ herp^ of a mother ptarmigan calling her brood was heard in. Photograph by E. J. Cameron. Fig. 4G.—Sharp tailed grouse. passing. Xear Blackfeet (ilacier feathers were found, and at Gun-sight Pass a lineman reported seeing the birds where the open slopesafford abundant food. In winter the ptarmigan feed on willow buds and the evergreenleaves of the dryas, Mr. Stevenson tells me. He has found them withtheir snow white winter plumage complete the last of September, andin winter has seen them on the mountain tops. each bird sitting inthe snow lodged behind a rock on the bare, rocky, wind-swept bar-rens. After hard storms, he sajS, they may also be found at thebases of the mountains, and one flock was discovered in the willowsabove Sherburne Lake during a blizzard. But though a few mayoccasionally be driven below by stress of storm, the ptarmigan live onthe mountain tops, where the mountain sheep and goats make theirhomes, and where they, too, are nour
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