. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 184 WILD ANIMALS OP GLACIEK NATIONAL PARK. rapidlj' and capably, covering a great deal of ground from the dead tree tops down, jerking out his flat quip' with a preoccupied air, or, as he looks up and around, sometimes stopping to sing his loud warbler chwee-chwee-chwee or swee-Hwee-swee, sioec-ah, swee-aJi, swee-ah, swee, but keeping on with his work till his bill fairly bristles with insects, and the voices of young birds are heard from back among the dense spruces. During the migra
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 184 WILD ANIMALS OP GLACIEK NATIONAL PARK. rapidlj' and capably, covering a great deal of ground from the dead tree tops down, jerking out his flat quip' with a preoccupied air, or, as he looks up and around, sometimes stopping to sing his loud warbler chwee-chwee-chwee or swee-Hwee-swee, sioec-ah, swee-aJi, swee-ah, swee, but keeping on with his work till his bill fairly bristles with insects, and the voices of young birds are heard from back among the dense spruces. During the migrations, Mr. Bryant says, the Audubon warblers pass through the North Fork of the Flathead Valley " in immense ; TowNSEXD ^Vaeblee: Dendrolca townsendi.—On the trail from Many Glaciers to Iceberg Lake the middle of July, high in the spruce and fir tops, both going and coming, I heard a faint warbler song with a drawled quality suggesting the eastern black-throated green, the near- est of kin to the Town&end. At Gran- ite Park the same song was heard and a small warbler was seen flying out of a high tree top. Late in August, From Handbook of wo, Bird,. () .^^^^.^lers taken for Townsends were Fig. 85.—Townsend warbler. , t- . • n^ -i t , t i seen on the Kootenai irail, and at Lake ilcDonald about half a dozen were seen in the willows bordering a small pond, near enough to see their handsome yellow and black markings; while on the Camas Lake trail a number of others were seen in a fall flock of wandering migrants. Grinnell Water-thrush: Seiunts noveioracensis nofaiiUs.— When at Lake McDonald the last of August, we followed along the shore toward McDonald Creek till we came to a small pond formed by a trickling woodland brook, where two red-tailed Audu- bon thrushes stopped us. Along the marshy edge of the pond, in the soft brown earth, we discovered fresh tracks of deer and bear, which had gone down to the still pool to drink. As the woods we
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