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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATTOISTAL PAEK. 



were our ever faithful neighbors during the winter. When other 

 birds were in hiding, in cold or stormy weather, these little fellows 



would come around the camp 

 and cheer us up with their inces- 

 sant song." 



Chestnut -BACKED Chickadee: 



P enthestes rufescens rufescens 

 {?). — In the dense cedar, tama- 

 rack, and hemlock woods border- 

 ing Lake McDonald, August 26, 

 we saw what, with the unsatisfac- 

 tory glimpses vouchsafed us, ap- 

 peared to be the chestnut-backed, 

 with top and back of head hair- 

 brown, and back, sides, and flanks 

 dark reddish brown. 



Family SYLVIID^: Kinglets, etc. 



Western Goldex- crowned 

 Kinglet: Regulus satrapa oliva- 

 ceus. — On the park side of the 

 North Fork of the Flathead at 

 Belton, August 31, a golden- 

 crowned kinglet was seen with a 

 flock of chickadees, and at Stanton 

 Lake ]\lr. Iligginson found one or more with every flock of chicka- 

 dees. A few kinglets were seen by Mr. Bailey on April 16, 1918, at 

 Kintla Lake. Dr. Grinnell says that he has seen them a number of 

 times on the east side of the park. 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet: Corthylio calendula calendula. — Fre- 

 quently heard among the firs and spruces of the park, the rippling, 

 charming song of the laiby kinglet, often given sotto voce, sometimes 

 suggests the reading, " Roundelay^ roundelay^ roundelay, cheery, 

 cheery., cheery., cheery., cheer^'' ending with a tsche-da., tsche-da., 

 tsche-da. 



Wlien the lovely tripping song had been heard a great deal on the 

 east side of Lake Josephine, on going along the west side of Lake 

 McDermott one morning I caught sight of a little green woodlander 

 with big eyes and a scarlet cap on his head, standing in a spruce near 

 the trail. At the same time he caught sight of me. and after flutter- 

 ing his wings and giving a few chattering notes, stopped short. 

 Wanting to sing, he started with the first merry notes, but, remember- 

 ing me, changed to a worried call — a single, rich, throaty note that he 



Photograph by E. R. Warren. 



Fig. 92.— Mountain chickadee. 



