. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . y easily be told from the cedar waxwing, w h i c h breeds atthe lower levels, byits larger size,brown forehead,and yellow andwhite wing mark-ings, but it also hasthe waxy red wingappendages and theyellow tail band ofthe cedar waxwing. j^^-v. v^^ ^^^^ ^^ t^^® distin- P^ I ^ ^ guished looking birds was seen byus July 18* in thefirs below the Gran-ite Park chalet. During migra-tion, in 1887, found theBohemians goingabout in close flocksof from 20 to 100,a n d e X t r e m e 1 yabundant abo
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . y easily be told from the cedar waxwing, w h i c h breeds atthe lower levels, byits larger size,brown forehead,and yellow andwhite wing mark-ings, but it also hasthe waxy red wingappendages and theyellow tail band ofthe cedar waxwing. j^^-v. v^^ ^^^^ ^^ t^^® distin- P^ I ^ ^ guished looking birds was seen byus July 18* in thefirs below the Gran-ite Park chalet. During migra-tion, in 1887, found theBohemians goingabout in close flocksof from 20 to 100,a n d e X t r e m e 1 yabundant aboutthe St. :Mary says: Scarcelya day passed without one or more flocks being seen. Thev ap-peared to prefer the mountain side to the valley, though flocksAvere seen a number of times among the firs and spruces of theInlet Flat.^ Cedai; Waxaving: BoinhyciUa eedrorum.—In the bottoms of theUpper St. Mary Lake, Avhere the tree swallows were nesting, the beady note of the Avaxwing Avas heard July 22, and one Avas discov-ered apparently feeding young. On the Swiftcurrent, August 6, grown. Handbook of WcstL-ru Birds. (i;( ,n S, Fig. 83.—Cedar waxwins BIRDS. 183 young were seen with their parents in the willow thickets of the bot-tom eating black honeysuckle berries. In the Belly River countrj^they were frequently seen, and they were also found in the WatertouLake Valley and at Lake jNIcDonald. Family LANIID^: Shrikes. White-rumped Shrike : Lconius ludo vicianus excubitorides.—Sev-eral times in the fall of 1887 Dr. Grinnell saw the white-rumpedshrike—with hooked bill, black eye stripe*, slaty upperparts, and])lack and white wings and tail—on the Upper St. Mary Lake and inthe valley of the St. Mary River. Family VIREONID^: Vireos. Western Warbling Yireo: Yireosyloa gilca swainsoni—The lowpleasing ix)und of the little olive-drab vireo was frequently heardin the willow thickets along watercourses in tJie park—at GlacierPark Hotel, St. Mary Lake, Swift
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