THE BIRDS. 



By Florence Merriam Bailey. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

 I. ITINERARY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The material for the basis of the accompanying report on the birds 

 of (ihicier Park was obtained during July and August, 1917, ATlien in 

 addition to the automobile trips from Glacier Park Hotel to Two 

 Medicine, St. Mary, and iMany Glaciers, and short trips to Grinnell 

 Lake, Iceberg Lake, and Granite Park, a month's pack trip was 

 made to the Canadian boundary and return. Starting from Going- 

 (o-the-Snn Camp we went to Lake Ellen "Wilson, and by way of 

 Piegan Pass to Many Glaciers and the Swiftcurrent Flats; thence 

 northward through the Kennedy Creek and Belly River regions — 

 a! siting Crossley and Glenn Lakes — to the Lower Waterton Lake 

 in Alberta. From Waterton Lake a side trip was made to the Bound- 

 ary Mountains in Briti-sh Columbia overlooking the Kintla Lake 

 region, after which we returned by way of the Waterton Valley and 

 the Kootenai Trail to Granite Park and Many Glaciers. A railroad 

 trip to Belton and a week at Lake McDonald completed the season's 

 work. 



Li the two months a general idea as to the breeding birds of the 

 region was obtained. But additional material regarding the spring 

 and fall migrants and winter residents has been procured from Dr. 

 George Bird Grinnell's article entitled " Some Autumn Birds of the 

 St. Mary Lakes Region," published in Forest and Stream in 1888; 

 a manuscript report kindly submitted to me by Mr. A. H. Higgin- 

 son, of Boston, on the winter birds of Stanton Lake — just outside the 

 park — and notes from park officials and taxidermists of the region, 

 who ha\e supplemented my meager field experience by knowledge 

 gained during years of residence in the park. Reports from Messrs. 

 Vernon Bailey and Arthur H. Howell, from St. ISIary Lake, and from 

 Blackfoot to Belton in 1895. and from Mr. Bailey, from Belton to 

 Kintla Lake, and from Lake McDonald in April, 1918, have been 



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