178 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK, 



berg Lake. Young just out of the nest -were seen by Mr. H. C. 

 Bryant, of California, July 22, near Lake Josephine. The birds were 

 seen feeding grown .young in many places. Mr. Stevenson speaks of 

 seeing large flocks in spring and fall. While quiet birds that on your 

 approach hide away in the bushes, the Juncos when sitting undis- 

 turbed in the sun have a pleasing little song, and their presence adds 

 a grateful touch of life to the forest. 



Mountain Song Sparrow: Melosjylza melodia fallax. — Song spar- 

 rows were found in the bushes at the head of Sherburne Lake and 

 on Belly River. One was found by Mr. Warren June 27, 1913, at 

 Iceberg Lake, and others were recorded by Mr. Bryant from the 

 North Fork of the Flathead, while a few were noted in 1895 by 

 JNIessrs. Bailey and Howell at the St. JMary Lakes. 



The possibility of finding the familiar song sparrow in the park 

 adds to one's zest in searching among the bushes of the lake borders, 

 for though he is here a bird of the mountains and his bi'own back ma}^ 

 be a different shade from the one known at home, the spot on his 

 streaked breast and the homely sweetness of his call and song are the 

 same — a different subspecies he is, but a song sparrow is a song 

 sparrow for a' that. 



Lincoln Sparrow: Mclospha lineolni llncohii. — The Lincoln 

 sparrow should be carefull}^ watched for about the willows of the 

 mountain meadows. While suggesting a small song sparrow, his 

 buffy chest band, finely penciled breast, and individual song set him 

 apart from his relatives. A bird that was taken for the Lincoln was 

 heard by Mr. H. C. Bryant, of California, in one of the mountain 

 meadows near the Sperry chalets. 



In 1895 Messrs. Bailey and Howell rej^orted these sparrows com- 

 mon in the brush patches and willow thickets at the upper St. Mary 

 Lake. They were also found tolerably common- near Blackfeet 

 Agency, now Browning, and one or two were seen at Summit and 

 Midvale, a nest with four eggs being found June 18, at Summit. 



Slate-colored Fox Sparrow : Passerdla iliaca scKistacea. — Two 

 dominant songs are heard in following the trails along the willow- 

 bordered lake shores and through the open parts of the park, those 

 of the white-crowned sparrow and the slate-colored fox sparrow. 

 The black and white striped crown of the white-crown identifies 

 him readily, but the dark gray head of the fox sparrow is less con- 

 spicuous, iind unless you prass close to the singer it is difficult to 

 make out the characteristic fox-colored spots on his breast and his 

 reddish tail. But once learned there is no mistaking his bright, 

 cheery song, and as he stands silhouetted against the astonishingly 

 green water of one of the beautiful mountain lakes the notes, with 



