. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. Buffle-head. Buffle-iiead: Cliar'itonvtta alheolo.—]Mr. Bryant once found a nest in a stump on a flat of Dutch Creek, which he identified from the egi>s as that of a bnffle-head, but tlie bird was not seen and no nests wei'c found in the marsh bordering the hike. Mr. Stevenson saj-s the butlle-head is common in the park in spring and late fall, but he has never seen either nest or joung. His father now suspects that it breeds near Sherburne Lake. The mounted bird to be seen at Lewi
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. Buffle-head. Buffle-iiead: Cliar'itonvtta alheolo.—]Mr. Bryant once found a nest in a stump on a flat of Dutch Creek, which he identified from the egi>s as that of a bnffle-head, but tlie bird was not seen and no nests wei'c found in the marsh bordering the hike. Mr. Stevenson saj-s the butlle-head is common in the park in spring and late fall, but he has never seen either nest or joung. His father now suspects that it breeds near Sherburne Lake. The mounted bird to be seen at Lewis's came from the Mid- dle Fork of the Flathead. On the St. Marjr Lakes, Dr. Grinnell found it, like the Barrow golden-eye, among the last to leave. On April 21, 1918, Mr. Bailey found many flocks of buffle-heads on Lake McDonald, usually with large flocks or in the great assemblies of mixed species of ducks. At a distance, he says, they looked like pure white balls—snowballs— floating on the water. Western Harlequin Duck : Histrionicus Mstrionlcus faclfcus.— The western form of the little harlequin, whose distribution is given as northwestern America and Siberia, and which spends its summers in rapid mountain streams, is one of the most notable birds found in Glacier Park. Everj'thing about it is distinctive. The plumage of the drake is bizarre enough to merit the name harlequin, with its gray and rich brown body colors strik- ingly slashed with white, and while the duck, according to the accepted custom in ornithological circles, is as dull colored and inconspicuous as her lord is hand- some and striking, she still has unusual face marks—two white spots on each side of the head that serve to identify her across a lake. Still more distinctive are the harlequin's habits, for, like the Avater ouzel, an habitue of foaming mountain streams, it rides their rapids with the abandon of enjoyment. On- the rapids connecting the two St. Mary Lakes, in the spring of 1895, Mr. Ba
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