BIRDS. 



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Glaciers, and they ai-e said to iio.^t coiuinonly in suitable localities 

 throughout the park. 



Some of the robins winter as far north as southern Bi-itish Colum- 

 bia, and from April 9-19, 1918, Mr. Bailey found them counnon from 

 Belton up through the North Fork valley, especially from Dutch 

 Creek to Big Prairie. "At Adair's ranch they were numerous, and 

 busy hunting worms in the meadow and singing from tlie tree tops." 



Northern Varied Thrush : Ixoreus ncevius meruloides. — The va- 

 ried thrush, whose size and rusty brown breast might suggest a rusty 

 robin with a black necklace, was seen or heard in a number of places 



Photograph by E. K. W: 



Fk;. 93. — Western robin. 



during the nesting season; and Mr. Bryant says it winters half waj^ 

 up the mountains, in the heavy timber near open water or springs, 

 where it can doubtless tind berrieS;^ such as mountain ash, high-bush 

 cranberry, and yew. On April 9, 1918, Mr. Bailey found varied 

 thrushes singing on both sides of the river at Belton, and during the 

 next two weeks found them around Lake McDonald and at various 

 points along the North Fork nearly to Kintla Creek, their long 

 thrilling note often coming from deep woods where there was still 

 two or three feet of snow. 



In August, on the Kootenai Trail near the home of the winter 

 wren family, a spotted-breasted young varied thrush was seen in a 



