THE HEPBURN LEUCOSTICTE. 



of flat rock which caught a bit of the afternoon sun. Here, to judge from 

 his lusty yelping, there could be no doubt that his parents would notice him, 

 altho they would be powerless to secure his further release until his wings 

 were grown. A Carnegie medal hox-ered suggestively over the spot, I know; 

 but pray, consider, — the rock wall was perpendicular and smooth as glass, 

 the ice-wall I stood on was undercut. No; e\"en philornitln- has its limits! 



Taken m the Rainier National Park. From a Photograph Copyright, 190S, by IV. L. Dawson. 



A GLIMPSE OF MT. RAINIER FROM THE NISQUALLY GLACIER. 



A FAVORITE HAUNT OF THE HEPBURN LEUCOSTICTE. 



The nest containing the remaining \(iungsters was set well hack in a 

 rock fissure, concealed l)v projections eightv feet above the fallen first-bijrn. 

 and inaccessible tO' man from above or below. With the possible exception 

 of the Black Cloud Swifts (Cypseloides iiigcr horealis). who are reported to 

 share at times these same cliffs, it is safe to say that the Leucostictes are the 

 highest nesters on the continent. 



