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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



patch, nest in the vicinity of Many Ghiciers, especially about the 

 head of Sherburne Lake. One pair with very young goslings has 

 been noted on Lake INIcDermott. A pair had nested on Lake Joseph- 

 ine for six years, Mr. Gibb told us, but had apparently been driven 

 off by the season's logging. Perhaps they had gone up to Grinnell 

 Lake, he suggested. Anxious to find the great birds at home on their 

 northern breeding grounds, when we rode up to the lake in July, on 

 dismounting I hurried to the shore and swept the lake eagerly with 

 my glass. Nothing was to be seen on the opposite shore or below, 

 but up at the head of the lake, under the glacier, with its ice cascades 



Photograph by E. U. Warren. 



Fig. 36. — Canada geese. 



and waterfalls, sitting quietly in a beautiful family group were the 

 old and young. They evidently saw us as soon as we saw them, for 

 they quickly vanished. To get another sight of them, we spent an 

 hour forcing our way through the dense chaparral bordering the 

 lake and working across slippery snowbanks to a steep white slope, 

 ending only at the edge of the water. Then across the lake we dis- 

 covered white spots — five or six the glass revealed, the young about 

 half grown — close along the shore with green chaparral-covered 

 mountain slopes and snowbanks above them — quite a different set- 

 ting from those we had been watching in the Washington Zoo in 

 June ! 



Another family was seen by j\Ir. and INIrs. Yard from the steam- 

 boat on St. Mary Lake near the narrows — two old geese and two 



