. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . ser. m lakes and ponds at the lower eleva-tions of the park and in 1914 were quite plentiful on the inletsof both the upper and lower Sherburne Lakes. A mounted mal-lard seen at Lewiss came from the North Fork of the Flathead,and ]\Ir. Gird says they are common there as well as aboutold beaver ponds on the Belly River. In the fall of 1887 Dr. Grin-nell found them extremely abundant throughout the St. MaryLakes region. They were also found feeding in open water latein November, and he said that und
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . ser. m lakes and ponds at the lower eleva-tions of the park and in 1914 were quite plentiful on the inletsof both the upper and lower Sherburne Lakes. A mounted mal-lard seen at Lewiss came from the North Fork of the Flathead,and ]\Ir. Gird says they are common there as well as aboutold beaver ponds on the Belly River. In the fall of 1887 Dr. Grin-nell found them extremely abundant throughout the St. MaryLakes region. They were also found feeding in open water latein November, and he said that undoubtedly a few remain allwinter on mountain streams. A few mallards were seen by Mr. Bailey, April 10 and 11, 1918,along the Middle Fork of the Flathead and at Lake McDonald; andmore, mostly in pairs, April 12-19, along the North Fork, from themouth of Camas Creek to Kintla Creek, and in many of the smalllakes and ponds; also on April 21, many pairs and flocks on LakeMcDonald. They were evidently both breeding and migrating. H. Myrick, the forest ranger at Belton, saw a family with five. 118 WILD AXIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. downy young in a pond on the river Hats near Nyack, April 5; andas the forest cruiser, H. R. Flint, saw mallards in the river nearthere in December, they evidently wintered there and bred early. Gadwall: CTiaxdelasmui^ strepems.—As their Latin name indi-cates, the gadwalls are noisy ducks. The drate may be recog-nized by his brown and Avhite wing patches, and the duck by herwhite patches and pure white wing linings, A brood of about a dozen dark, j-ellow-spotted, downy young w-erefound, July 19, by Mr. Bailey, swimming around under the willowson a beaver pond between Many Glaciers and Sherburne adult was also seen, August 9, on Lake Elizabeth, in the BellyRiver region. In the fall of 1S87 Dr. Grinnell found gadwalls abundant on shallow prairie lakes on Milk River Ridge and north-ward. Baldiate: Mareea ainericana.—jNIr. Stevenson ques
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