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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



From Handbook of Bird: 



Fig. 8G 



-il a c g i 1 1 i V V a y 

 warbler. 



hotel trail. The woods were still — not a breath stirred the leaves, 

 not a sound broke the silence, and patches of light lay unmoved on 

 the tree trunks. Looking down we found we were following pointed 

 tracks — a deer had been along the trail since we went up ! A red- 

 letter day, indeed, was that on which we discovered the Grinnell 

 water-thrush ! 



Macgillivrav Warbler : Oporornis tolmiei. — The Macgillivray, 

 with his slaty head and neck, bright yellow underparts, and olive- 

 green back is one of the most abundant birds 

 of the park, his leisurely rather throaty 

 tur-tur-tur-turty-tah being heard not onlj^ 

 from the willow thickets but from the chapar- 

 ral of the mountain slopes. The songster may 

 sometimes be discovered throwing back his 

 head to sing from the tip of an evergreen 

 spire, and sometimes caught giving a delight- 

 ful flight song over the bushes. 



AVestern Yellow-throat: Geothly pis 

 frichas occidentalis. — During the nesting sea- 

 son the ioltch-awee\ loitch-awee' ^ toltch-awee' of the yellow-throat 

 was heard from the willows near the tepees on Lake McDermott, 

 and, by quietly watching, the busy songster with black mask, yellow 

 breast, and olive back was caught siglit of in passing. 



Below McDermott Falls, in a willow and spruce thicket protected 

 from the Avind by a high mountain wall, where fragrant ladies' tresses 

 and pink castillejas brightened the ground, the birds of the neighbor- 

 hood — yellow warblers, white-crowned spar- 

 rows, Swainson vireos, ruby kinglets, Mac- 

 gillivray warblers, and yellow-throats — were 

 gathered one sunny morning holding a merry 

 concert. The yellow-throat brought out all 

 his best variations — wree-cha-ree', luree-cha- 

 ree' ^ lorec-cJia-ree' ^ witcJi-awee-ioitch' , witch- 

 awee-wifch^ , and witch- aw ee-ioltcli' ah. 



Below St. Mary Chalet, late in Jul}', a 

 yellow-throat was seen carrying food, and 

 as late as August one was seen giving his flight song over the 

 willows. 



PiLEOLATED Warbler : WUsonia pusUla pUeolata. — The jaunty lit- 

 tliC black-capped yellow warblers Avere found in the bushes in a num- 

 ber of places, notably at Glacier Park, Swiftcurrent Flats, Gunsight 

 Lake, Waterton A^alley, the Kootenai Trail, and Lake McDonald. 

 One was seen July 13, at Lake McDermott, carrying food. 



From Handbook of Birds. (Fuortcs.) 



Fig. 87. — Western yellow- 

 throat. 



