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WILD AXIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PAEK. 



bank swallows, although the unmarked, gray-breasted, rough-Avinged 

 swallow also nests in colonies. Both the rough-winged and the bank 

 are without the iridescent colors of the other swallows. 



Family BOMBYCILLID^: Waxwings. 



Bohemian Waxwing: Bomhy cilia garrula pallldlceps. — The fawn- 

 colored, high-crested Bohemian waxwing, which breeds from Alaska 

 to the northwestern border of the United States, should be looked 

 for in the park. It may easily be told from the cedar waxwing, 



w h i c h breeds at 

 the lower levels, by 

 its larger size, 

 brown forehead, 

 and yellow and 

 white wing mark- 

 ings, but it also has 

 the waxy red wing 

 appendages and the 

 yellow tail band of 

 the cedar waxwing. 



j^^-v. v''"^^ ^^^^ ^^ t^^® distin- 



P^ I ^ ^ ' " guished looking 



birds was seen by 

 us July 18* in the 

 firs below the Gran- 

 ite Park chalet. 



During migra- 

 tion, in 1887, Dr. 

 Grinnell found the 

 Bohemians going 

 about in close flocks 

 of from 20 to 100, 

 a n d e X t r e m e 1 y 

 abundant about 

 the St. :Mary Lakes. 

 He says : " Scarcely 

 a day passed without one or more flocks being seen. Thev ap- 

 peared to prefer the mountain side to the valley, though flocks 

 Avere seen a number of times among the firs and spruces of the 

 Inlet Flat.^' 



Cedai; Waxaving: BoinhyciUa eedrorum. — In the bottoms of the 

 Upper St. Mary Lake, Avhere the tree swallows were nesting, the 

 " beady note "' of the Avaxwing Avas heard July 22, and one Avas discov- 

 ered apparently feeding young. On the S wiftcurrent, August 6, grown 



Handbook of WcstL-ru Birds. (i;rn.-s( Tli..nips.,n S, 



Fig. 83. — Cedar waxwins 



