. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . .Two daj^s later an old cock, disturbed when dusting himself, stoodhis ground valorously. To foe sure he had lost his tail, but he spreadhis black epaulettes with great effect as he strutted off through thelodgepole pines. BIRDS. 139 Southern White-tailed Ptarmigan : Lagopus leucurus cdti-[Ktens.—One of the most interestino; birds of the Avorkl, whoseArctic-Alpine habitat makes its acquaintance impossible for mostof us, in Glacier Park is found close to the trails frequented by thetourist, ^Yhere
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . .Two daj^s later an old cock, disturbed when dusting himself, stoodhis ground valorously. To foe sure he had lost his tail, but he spreadhis black epaulettes with great effect as he strutted off through thelodgepole pines. BIRDS. 139 Southern White-tailed Ptarmigan : Lagopus leucurus cdti-[Ktens.—One of the most interestino; birds of the Avorkl, whoseArctic-Alpine habitat makes its acquaintance impossible for mostof us, in Glacier Park is found close to the trails frequented by thetourist, ^Yhere a half hours walk from a chalet may attord a studywhose intimacy is limited only by the patience of the observer. AsI had hunted vainly for ptarmigan over cloud-swept ridges in NewMexico, it was doubh?^ exciting to be told of a nest on the GranitePark trail in the grass near the trail by the first snow we got there the brood had apparently gone, but as wecrossed Swiftcurrent Pass Mr. Bailey pronounced the slopes on thesouth side ideal ptarmigan slopes, and so, after our dinner at. Copinghtby n R \\-\ (. ourl s\ H i Fig. 44.—Mother ptarmigan and chicks. the chalet, when he returned to climl) the peak on the north side ofthe pass, I accompanied him to make my way up the slopes of thesouth peak looking for the birds. Skirting an acre of snow, I zig-zagged back and forth over the face of the ideal ptarmigan slope,open to swift-winged enemies, but by its broken surface and varietyof colors affording a safe background for ptarmigan in the mixed sum-mer plumage. Even the wide expanse of slide rock was brokenby occasional dwarf evergreens and streaks of grass, and many ofits red shales were patterned with lemon-yellow or curly-brownlichen covering deep ripple marks. Above the main mass of slidewas a wide grassy slope of soft yelloAvish broAvn tones that wouldsoon match the brown of the ptarmigan. Above this the narrow 140 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. outcro
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