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WILD ANIMALS OP GLACIER KATIOXAL PARK. 



uk ot Birds of the Wt 



Fig. 7; 



stem United States. 



. — Meadowlark. 



Stevenson says it is " rare, but noted," and Mr. Gird records it from 

 the swamps of the North Fork of the Flathead, and also the 



Belly River coimtr3\ 

 W E s T E R X ]Mead- 

 owlark: St urn ell a 

 neglecta neglecta. — 

 The meadowlark, 

 with his handsome 

 b 1 a c k - collared yel- 

 low breast and his 

 })rotectively colored 

 brown-streaked back, 

 is rare in the park, 

 though seen between 

 Many Glaciers and 

 the St. Mary Lakes and reported from the Sherburne Lake Flats, 

 Belly River, and the North Fork of the Flathead. One was seen 

 yoars ago by JNIr. Bryant 

 at Ernest Christianson's 

 ranch on Camas Creek 

 at Thanksgiving, and 

 JNIr. Christianson has 

 told him of one winter- 

 ing in his hay sheds. 

 On April 18, 1918, Mr. 

 Bailey heard meadow- 

 larks singing in the 

 fields at the Adair ranch, 

 south of Logging Creek, 

 but apparently they had 

 not 3'et reached the Big 

 Prairie country. 



B R e w e r Blackbird : 

 EwpKagus cyanoceph- 

 alus. — The only black- 

 birds seen by us were 

 just outside the bounda- 

 ries of the park in one 

 of the valleys a few 

 miles north of Glacier 

 Park Hotel and on the 

 Belly River north of the 

 International Boundary, 

 but both were so near the line that the birds would very likely have 

 come into the park. Mr. Bryant reports them from the prairie 



Photographed by K, R. Warren. 



Fic. 73. — Brewer blackbird. 



