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some of the most g'ifted songsters in America. Tlic less mu- 

 sical or more (]iiiet species wliicli [ have observed at tiiis sea- 

 son, include the Spotted Sandpiper, Richardson's Grouse, 

 Golden Eagle, several species of Hawks, Kingfisher, Raven, 

 Canada Jay, Rocky Mountain .Jay, Pine Finch, Chipping 

 Sparrow, Violet-groen Swallow, l^)ank Swallow, Yellow, Au- 

 dubon's, and Golden I'ileolated W'ai-blcrs, ('hickadee and 



■■ A strange, plump little figure " 



Columbian Chickadee, Arctic Bluebird, and Dipper. Of 

 this anomaly among birds, this diving Thrush, I found a 

 nest late in July, 1901, in a rock fissure overhanging the 

 rushing waters of Fish Creek, at Glacier. It contained five 

 young, nearly fledged, which the parents fed as I sat within 

 a foot of their home. 



Swollen by the rapidly melting snowfields stretching 

 down from Asulkan Pass, the stream dashed by with so 

 great an uproar, that the human voice was inaudible from 

 bank to bank, a distance of not more than twenty feet, but 



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