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WILD ANIMALS OP GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. 



IviNG-NECKED DucK : M avila coUaris. — Mr. Bryant says that the 

 ringneck is found in swampy ground in the park in summer, so that 

 it is well to add it to the list of those to be carefully looked for. The 

 drake, while having the black head and breast of the scaups, may be 

 distinguished by the light ring on its bill, the brown collar and black 

 back, the duck by the gray wing patch. 



Barroav Golden-eye: ('langida Islandica. — The handsome green- 

 headed Barrow drake has what has been described as a " spread- 

 wing shaped white patch " at tlie base of the bill which distinguishes 

 the Barrow golden-eye of the mountains from the American golden- 

 eye, whose drake has onl_y a round white spot at the base of his 



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bill. But like most male ducks, the handsome Barrow is rarely 

 seen in late summer, apparently going off to some secluded place to 

 molt, leaving his mate to rear the young. An old duck, with puffy 

 brown head, golden eye or " brass eye," Avhite imderparts and large 

 white wing patch, leading around a brood of downy young, is one of 

 the delightfully familiar sights on the beautiful mountain lakes of 

 Glacier Park. When roAving on Lake INIcDermott one July evening, 

 along the shore opposite Many Glaciers we came to an old mother 

 with three young. Her white neck line, cutting the brown of her 

 head, showed conspicuously in the dusk, as did the little white cheeks 

 contrasting with the dark croAvns of the ducklings. When we rowed 

 near the mother gave a low guttural call, in response to which the 



