CONTENTS. 



Page. 



General features governing life in Glacier National Park 15 



I. Physiography 15 



II. Life zones J8 



Transition Zone 19 



Canadian Zone 20 



Hudsonian Zone 22 



Arctic-Alpine Zone 23 



THE MAMMALS. 



Order Ungulata: Hooted animals — cattle, sheep, goats, antelope, and deer 25 



Family Bovidse: Cattle, sheep, and goats 25 



Bison, or buffalo 25 



Mountain sheep, or bighorn 26 



Mountain goat 28 



Family Antilocapridae: Prong-horned antelope ?,1 



Prong-horned antelope ,31 



Family Cervidfe: Moose, elk, and deer 31 



American moose 31 



American elk, or wapiti 32 



Mule deer 33 



Western white-tail deer 35 



Order Rodentia: Gnawing animals 37 



Family Sciuridae: Squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, etc 37 



Richardson pine squirrel 37 



Flying squirrel 39 



Yellow-bellied chipmunk 40 



Forest chipmunk 42 



Little mountain chipmunk 42 



Mantled ground squirrel 43 



Columbia ground squirrel 45 



Richardson ground squirrel 49 



Striped ground squirrel 50 



Glacier hoary marmot 50 



Brown wood chuck 53 



Family Muridee: Mice, rats, etc 53 



Gray bushy-tailed woodrat 53 



Forest white-footed mouse 58 



Mountain lemming mouse 59 



Red-backed mouse 60 



Large-footed meadow mouse 61 



Rocky Mountain meadow mouse 62 



Drummond meadow mouse 63 



Rocky Mountain muskrat 63 



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