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WILD ANIMALS OF ULACIEK ^-ATIOXAL PARK. 



their plumage and seeming to enjoy the sun. They reminded me of 

 a row of wood ducks. When the 3'Oung had finished dressing their 

 down, they sat down on the stick, some lengthwise and some across 

 the log, the mother, which had been the last to leave the water, being 

 nearest to it." 



In the Olsen Valley, August 21, 1917, Mr. Robert S. Yard saw 

 seven harlequins, the young apparently nearly grown. On Gunsight 

 Lake, a month earlier, we saw several harlequins which flew up and 

 down the St. Mary Eiver, near whose rapids they very likely made 

 their homes. On the North Fork of the Flathead they have been 

 seen by ]Mr. Bryant, and Mr. Stevenson feels sure that they breed 

 along swift mountain streams throughout the park. On August 4 



and 5, 1914, Mr. Aretas A. 

 Saunders saw five birds on 

 the Upper Two Medicine 

 Lake. One of the hardy 

 ducks was seen in the win- 

 ter of 1917 by Mr. Gibb 

 swimming in the swift 

 water above McDermott 

 Falls. 



On Iceberg Lake, June 

 27, 1913, Mr.^E. R. Warren 

 saw a pair of the ducks and 

 photographed one. "At the 

 time," he says, " the lake 

 was mostly covered with 

 ice and snow, merely a nar- 

 row strip of open water 10 or 50 feet wide along the side opposite the 

 glacier, and in this the brightly clad drake and his more quietly 

 dressed mate were swimming back and forth. They were compara- 

 tiveh' tame and paid little attention to me as I stood on the shore and 

 watched them, though they kept in motion continually. The only time 

 they took Aving was to fly over a narrow bit of ice. Later I saw them 

 get out and walk on the same ice. While I was equipped with a 

 Graflex camera, the day was very dark and cloudy, raining occasion- 

 ally, and I did not succeed in getting a single good negative. Ea'cu 

 the strong reflection from the ice and snow did not help out suffi- 

 ciently. It was the chance of a lifetime, and I will never cease to 

 regret not having obtained good pictures." Borrowing Mr. War- 

 ren's best negative, we had it strengthened and touched up and 

 present it here for its great local interest. Bird photographers vis- 

 iting the park while the drake is still to be seen in June should watch 

 carefully for opportunities to obtain better results. 



Photograph by E. 11. Wi 



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Fig. 33. — Harlequin cluck at Iceberg Lake. 



