THE BIRDS. 



By Flokence Merriam Bailey. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

 I. ITINEKAEY AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The material for the basis of tlie accompanying report on the birds 

 of Ghicier Park was obtained during July and August, 1!J17, when in 

 addition to the automobile trips from Glacier l*ark Hotel to Two 

 IMedicine, St. Mary, and Many Glaciers, and short trips to Grinnell 

 Lake, Iceberg Lake, and Granite Park, a month's pack trip was 

 made to the Canadian boundary and return. Starting from Going- 

 to-the-Sun Gamp ive went to Lake Ellen Wilson, and by way of 

 Piegan Pass to Many Glaciers and the Swiftcurrcnt Plats; thence 

 northward through the Kennedy Creek and Belly Eiver regions — 

 visiting Crossley and Glenn Lakes — to the Lower Waterton Lake 

 in Alberta. P'rom Waterton Lake a side trip was made to the Bound- 

 ary Mountains in British Columbia overlooking the Kiiitla Lake 

 region, after which we returned by way of the Waterton Valley and 

 the Kootenai Trail to Granite l*ark and Many Glaciers. A railroad 

 trip to Belton and a week at Lake McDonald completed the season's 

 work. 



In the two months a general idea as to the breeding birds of the 

 region was obtained. But additional material regarding the spring 

 and fall migrants and winter residents has been procured from Dr. 

 George Bird Grinnelhs article entitled " Some Autunni Birds of the 

 St. ^Mary Lakes Region," published in Forest and Stream in 1888; 

 a manuscript report kindly submitted to me by Mr. A. H. Pliggin- 

 son, of Boston, on the winter birds of Stanton Lake — just outside the 

 park — and notes from park officials and taxidermists of the region, 

 who have supplemented my meager field experience by knowledge 

 gained during years of I'esidence in the park. Reports from Messrs. 

 Vernon Bailey and Arthur H. Howell, from St. Mary Lake, and from 

 Blackfoot to Belton in 1895, and from Mr. Bailey, from Belton to 

 Kintla Lake, and from Lake McDonald in April, 1918, have been 



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