. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . only four localities—at a lumber camp at the head of LakeJosephme, near AVaterton Lake, at the Reynolds Cabin, and on theCamas Lake Trail above Lake McDonald; and on Mr. Baileys returnto the west side of the park in April, he saw only one—at , like the eagles, they have been accidentally caught bythe fur trappers. 166 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. In winter, Mr. Gibb told us, the handsome birds have come to hisranger cabin for food, getting so tame tliat if tlie door were le
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . only four localities—at a lumber camp at the head of LakeJosephme, near AVaterton Lake, at the Reynolds Cabin, and on theCamas Lake Trail above Lake McDonald; and on Mr. Baileys returnto the west side of the park in April, he saw only one—at , like the eagles, they have been accidentally caught bythe fur trappers. 166 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. In winter, Mr. Gibb told us, the handsome birds have come to hisranger cabin for food, getting so tame tliat if tlie door were leftop&n they would come inside. Rocky JNIountain Jay: Perisoreus cajiadeiisis Gapitalls.—The bigflutfy camp bird, or lumber jack, when met with in the park wassometimes on guard, slipping through the tree tops and sailing-down across an open si:)ace with short wings and long tail outspread inabsolute silence, but when off guard it flew about giving vent to itsfeelings in a most surprising variety of loud, strange calls. Thehunter who names the jay moose bird complains that he bothers. tograpli by E. I Fig. 09.—Rocky Mouulaio jay. a fellow stalking game—get^ up in a tree and bawls you out—every-thing in the countiy knows you are around. Where game has beenkilled, as Mr. Higginson says, the jays seem to gather like buzzardsto feed off the meat, becoming so tame they will allow a close ap-proach. They have been found storing food by Dr. Grinnell, puttingit in moss near the ends of branches of tall firs and spruces. In winter Mr. Gibb has had these familiar friends of the forestcome to his ranger cabin, where they became so tame and persistentthat it was hard to keep the coveted meat from them. They got soexpert that they could piy off the lid of a granite bucket and, chat-tering while they worked, actually untied the knot in a string withwhich Mrs. Gibb had fastened on tlie lid. BIRDS. 167 Raven : Corvus corax slnuatus.—The ravens, ■while not becomingtame like the c
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