. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . e of the small hawks fly out w^itliits characteristic quick, hard wing was the only one seen or heard of duringthe summer, but in the fall of 1887 found it common on the plainsand about the Upper St. Mary Lake. Whenseen near at hand, it may be known by itspale clay brown upperparts, white collarand Hawk: Rhynchodon peregrinus anatum.—One of the duck hawks, which rank next to the goshaAvk as fierce birds of prey, was seen by Dr. Grinnell in 1887, feeding on n fe
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . e of the small hawks fly out w^itliits characteristic quick, hard wing was the only one seen or heard of duringthe summer, but in the fall of 1887 found it common on the plainsand about the Upper St. Mary Lake. Whenseen near at hand, it may be known by itspale clay brown upperparts, white collarand Hawk: Rhynchodon peregrinus anatum.—One of the duck hawks, which rank next to the goshaAvk as fierce birds of prey, was seen by Dr. Grinnell in 1887, feeding on n female shoveller, on a bluff overlooking Red Eagle Creek during a blinding Hawk: Tinnunculus colvmbarlus colunibariuH.—The pigeon hawk—one of the small bird-catching hawks—was reported from the park by Mr. Bryant. Desert Sparrow Hawk: Cerchneis spar verm phalit^na.—The familiar rufous and brown sparrow hawk, which lives largely on grass-hoppers and nests in a hole in a tree trunk. From BioiogicMsurvey. was seen a number of times in the park. An fig. 53.—pigeon From Biologir-ftl Survey. Fig. 52.—Duck hawk
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