BIRDS. 



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patches along the Xorth Fork of the Fhithead, and 'Mv. E. IJ. A\'arren 

 on June 20. 1913. saw them at St. Mary Lake. 



Family FRINGILLID^: Finches, Sparrows, etc. 



Western Evening Grosbeak : Hesperiphona vespertina hrook.n. — 

 The yellowish green iinderparts, bright yellow forehead, and olive 

 back of the grosbeak, set off by his black markings, identify him 

 unmistakably even when his large yellowish green seed-cracking 

 beak can not be seen, and he should be watched for in the park, as 

 he is said to breed in the region. On July 2 and 4, 1913, INIr. Warren 

 saw four at Belton, and on July 17, 1917, :Mr. H. C. Bryant, of 

 California, saw a pair around the Belton chalets. The birds were 

 also said to have come to the cottages 

 at Lewis's for food, much to the enjo}^- 

 ment of the visitors. Mr. E. S. Bry- 

 ant thinks the}^ are most plentiful in 

 the spring migration, but saj^s they 

 breed some j^ears fairly commonly and 

 are seen throughout the j^ear. He has 

 seen them feeding young at Columbia 

 Falls, and ]Mr. Stanford says they bred 

 at Kalispell in the summer of 1917. 

 Mr. Stanford adds that both grosbealcs 

 and Bohemian waxwings generally 

 feed around town all winter. Mr. 

 Bryant has seen them in late winter 

 in such places as alder bottoms. At 

 Stanton Lake, in the winter of 1899-1900, ]Mr. Higginson saw only 

 one small flock. On April 11. 1918, Mr. Bailey saw one at the lower 

 end of Lake McDonald. 



EocKY ^Mountain Pine Grosbeak : Plnlcola enucleator montana. — 

 A bird taken for the pine grosbeak, which is larger than the evening 

 grosbeak and carmine red in full adult plumage, was heard singing 

 high on a dead tree on the Camas Lake Trail on August 28, 1917. Mr. 

 Gibb says he has seen it in the park in summer, and INIr. Bryant 

 thinks it nests there. Mr. Stevenson reports it as rather a common 

 bird of the winter months, and Mr. Bryant has found it along the 

 alders in the bottoms after heavy snowstorms, although in clear, cold 

 weather as late as February he has found it at 7,000-foot levels. INIr. 

 Gibb has had the birds come to his ranger cabin for food in winter, 

 and as they were tame and unsuspicious they made delightful winter 

 pets. Mr. B. X. Gephart reports that the}- are abundant all winter 

 about his place on the Camas Creek Ridge, as many as fifty often 

 being seen on his doorstep. 



n Biological Survey. (Fuertes.) 



Fig. 74. — Evenins srosl)eak. 



