CONTENTS. 



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General features governing life in G lacier National Park 15 



I. Physiography 15 



II. Life zones Ig 



Transition Zone 19 



Canadian Zone 20 



Hudsonian Zone 22 



Arctic-Alpine Zone 23 



THE MAMMALS. 



Order Ungulata: Hoofed animals — cattle, sheep, goats, antelope, and deer 25 



Family Bovidse: Cattle, sheep, and goats 25 



Bison, or buffalo 25 



Mountain sheep, or bighorn 26 



Mountain goat 28 



Family Antilocapridse: Prong-horned antelope 31 



Prong-horned antelope 31 



Family Cervidae: Moose, elk, and deer 31 



American moose 31 



American elk, or wapiti 32 



Mule deer 33 



Western white-tail deer 35 



Order Rodentia : Gnawing animals 37 



Family Sciuridse: Squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, etc 37 



Richardson pine squirrel 37 



Fhdng squirrel 39 



Yellow-bellied chipmunk 40 



Forest chipmunk ; 42 



Little mountain chipmunk 42 



Mantled ground squirrel 43 



Columbia ground squirrel 45 



Richardson ground squirrel 49 



Striped ground squirrel 50 



Glacier hoary marmot 50 



Brown woodchuck 53 



Family Muridae: ISIice, rats, etc 53 



Gray bushy-tailed woodrat 53 



Forest white-footed mouse 58 



Mountain lemming mouse 59 



Red-backed mouse 60 



Large-footed meadow mouse 61 



Rocky Mountain meadow mouse 62 



Drummond meadow mouse 63 



Rocky Mountain muskrat 63 



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