. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . TT J. n 1 ■ 1 I rom Biologicil S ir\ \ notes c Here were two small birds „ _, ^ , . , , Fic. i 1. —Rid-winged LlncklniYl. in whose nests an extra egg or two might safely be left. Were they waiting for the songsters to go totheir nests or merely locating the families before making a detailedinspection of likely bushes? The rope corral at camp where our horses were fed attractedthe cowbirds, and when we broke camp one of thent followedour pack outfit for more than a mile. At a subsequent camp onBell


. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . TT J. n 1 ■ 1 I rom Biologicil S ir\ \ notes c Here were two small birds „ _, ^ , . , , Fic. i 1. —Rid-winged LlncklniYl. in whose nests an extra egg or two might safely be left. Were they waiting for the songsters to go totheir nests or merely locating the families before making a detailedinspection of likely bushes? The rope corral at camp where our horses were fed attractedthe cowbirds, and when we broke camp one of thent followedour pack outfit for more than a mile. At a subsequent camp onBelly Eiver two other cowbirds made themselves at home in thecorral, nonchalantly perching on the backs of the horses. Bygoing about among such a bunch of horses with which there werecowbirds, Mr. Stevenson once succeeded in taming two of the birds sothat they would take flies and mosquitoes from his hand. Thick-billed Redwing: Agelaius phceniceus fortis.—Near theSherburne Lake flood land T heard what I took to be the o-ha-leeof a redwing on August 1. but none of the birds were seen. 170 WILD ANIMALS OP GLACIER KATIOXAL PARK.


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