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WILD ANIMALS OF OLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



Ring-necked Duck: Marila eollaris. — Mr. Bryant saj's that the 

 ringneck is found in swampy ground in the park in summer, so that 

 it is well to add it to the list of those to be carefully looked for. The 

 drake, while having tlie black head and breast of the scaups, may be 

 distinguished by the light ring on its bill, the brown collar and black 

 back, the duck by the gray wing patch. 



Barrow Golden-eye: L'lan<jula islandica. — The handsome green- 

 headed Barrow drake has Avhat has been described as a " spread- 

 wing shaped white patch " at the base of the bill which distinguishes 

 the Barrow golden-eye of the mountains from the American goklen- 

 ej^e, whose drake has only a round white spot at the base of his 



PhotogruDh liy (ii'orKe Shira-s, 31 



Courtesy of Hircl-Tji 



— <':f)ldon-r'yes 



n yrllowRtonp Lake. 



bill. But like most male ducks, the handsome Barrow is rarelv 

 seen in late summer, apparently going off to some secluded place to 

 luolt, leaving his mate to rear the young. An old duck, with puffy 

 brown head, golden eye or " brass eye," white underparts and large 

 white wing patch, leading around a brood of downy young, is one of 

 the delightfully familiar sights on the beautiful mountain lakes of 

 Glacier Park. When rowing on Lake INIcDcrmott one July evening, 

 along the shore opposite Many Glaciers we came to an old mother 

 with three young. Her white neck line, cutting the brown of her 

 liead, sliowed conspicuously in the dusk, as did the little white cheeks 

 contrasting with the dark crowns of Ihe ducklings. When we i-owed 

 near the mother gave a low guttural call, in response to which the 



