4^ Hunting the Grizzly 



be seen following in their aerial flight the 

 windings of the stream for several miles, until 

 they disappeared between the blue foothills 

 limning the mountain ranges. To steal upon 

 a crane unawares is a very difficult matter. 

 Their tippings for food are followed at short 

 intervals by a craning of the long neck for an- 

 other reconnoitre. Still pursuing our course, 

 we had our attention next attracted by a large 

 osprey appearing in the panorama of the sur- 

 roundings. Circling and soaring overhead, he 

 suddenly stops and instantly closes his huge 

 wings, making a straight shoot downward like 

 a meteor into the water, the spray flying in all 

 directions from his impact ; he disappears for 

 an instant, reappears, and shakes the water 

 from himself; then, if unsuccessful, ascending 

 directly back into the air, begins to circle 

 round and round aloft again, for another 

 glimpse of a member of the finny tribe. This 

 w^as what happened, as we began to watch him. 

 Again in his gyrations stopping suddenly, he 

 began to flap his wings and stood almost sta- 

 tionary for possibly a minute, when he made 

 another dart and dived again straight into the 



