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abundant and generally distributed birds of the park, its grave, sweet 

 song being heard from the level of the prairie to timberline, and from 

 the southern entrance of the park to the Canadian boundtry. Its four 

 slow, clear notes are followed by grace notes that in some renderings 

 seem rather out of keeping, but in the best renderings seem the neces- 

 sary counterpart and completion of the first part of the song. Accord- 

 ing to the setting the song suggests various phrasings, as " Clear 

 mount' -ain hrool', there-it-is; " " Oh see' the firs, see-see-see-seey At 

 Sexton Glacier, where we were studying the glacier front with its 

 irregularly flattened and compressed annual layers, the song rang in 

 our ears till it seems to say, " Oh see"" the ice, say-see-see ; Oh see'' the 

 ice, say-see-see f^ but where no especial phrase was suggested by the 

 landscape, the words '•'' High up. high vp, see-see,^'' seemed to fit the 

 cool, grave, uplifted song. 



Gambel Sparrow: Zonotrichia gamleli. — On May 27, 1895, 

 Messrs. Bailey and Howell collected a Gambel sparrow at St. Mary 

 Lake. While resembling the white-crown very closel}^, it differs 

 from it in having the space between the eye and the bill white in- 

 stead of black. 



Westekx Tree Sparroav: Spizella monticola ochracea. — In 1887 

 Dr. Grinnell reported the western tree sparrow — which has a black 

 spot on the unstreaked breast, and the crown and line back of the 

 eye rufous — as quite abundant during the coldest part of October 

 in the St. Mary Lakes region. 



Western Ciiippixg Sparrow : Spizella passerina arizonce. — Rufous- 

 capped chipping sparrows were seen in many places, especially along 

 the lower edges of the park, notably at Glacier Park Hotel, St. Mary 

 Lake, Swiftcurrerit Flats, Lake McDermott, 

 Belly River, Crossley Lake, Gunsight Lake, 

 and Lake McDonald. They are recorded from 

 the prairie patches on the Avest side of the park 

 by Mr. Br3^ant and were found by ]\Ir. H. C. 

 Bryant, of California, late in July at Iceberg 

 Lake. 



Montana Junco: J unco orcganus mon- 



tanUS. Montana JunCOS with slate-colored From Handbook of western Birds. 



head, neck, and chest, white belly and brown- ^''- ]^:~^2TrZl '^"" 



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ish back, abound in the park, their Hsip 



being frequently heard and their disappearing white outer tail 

 feathers often seen along the trtiils. A grown 3'oung one was 

 seen July 8, at Lake ^IcDermott. and two nests were found 

 by Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Berger — one with three eggs, July IB, 

 at Sun Camp, and another with six eggs, July 16, near Ice- 



