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Pectoral Sandpipek: PisoUa m,acuIata.—Jn fall when on its way 

 between Alaska and South America, the pectoral sandpiper, with 

 black rump and up])er tail coverts and neck and breast closely 

 streaked, has been found by Mr. Bryant in the higher parts of the 

 park, notably at the head of Dutch Creek near the snow and ice, 

 and at such lakes as Iceberg Lake with its large glacier. 



Geeatek Yellow-legs: Totanus rnelanoleuciis {?). — One of the 

 yellow-legs is a rare migrant in the park, and Mr. Stanford thinks 

 it is the greater. As the bird may be seen on its way south in July 

 it is well to watch for it and make sure of its identity. The white 

 rump and tail uuirk it as a form of yellow-legs, while the size de- 

 termines which — the greater being from 12 to 15 inches long, its 

 bill about 2-|, and its exposed leg bone 21 inches or longer. 



Western S'olitaet Sandpiper: Ilelodrorans solitarlus cimuimo- 

 mevs. — The solitary, which is to be looked for in the park on its 

 early fall migration, may be distin- 

 guished from other sandpipers in the 

 field by its dark color, black wings, and 

 shrill note. Mr. Bryant reports it from 

 the valley of the North Fork of the 

 Flathead, and Mr. Bailey on August li 

 noted four or five a short distance north 

 of the Alberta boundary line. 



Upland Plover: B artrcvmia longi- 

 cd'uda. — Another rare, delightful bird to From Handbook of wcatcm Birds, l. a 

 be looked for on the prairie patches of "' t^° ,„ wi 



-■- J- 1^ IG. 40. — Wilson snipe. 



the North Fork of the Flathead is the 



gentle upland plover, whose sweet bubbling notes from the sky are 



heard less and less as the years pass. On the plains east of the park 



the curlew and plover are both occasionally found, and in June, 1895, 



two pairs of plover were seen by Messrs. Bailey and Howell near 



Browning. 



Spotted Sandpiper : Actitis inacularia. — The sandpiper seen com- 

 monly along the lakes of the park, trotting over the pretty red and 

 green pebbles, and curving out from the shores, skimming low over 

 the water, showing a white line down the wing, is the same little 

 tip-up Ave have always laiown on river bank and ocean beach, and 

 its sweet peet-toeet, peter- meet has a strangelj homelike ring 

 under glacier-clad mountains. On Gunsight Lake, beside tiie ruin 

 of the avalanche-wrecked chalet, I found tlie meager nest of one of 

 the gentle birds, and when the young hatched watched the mother 

 tenderly sheltering them from the cold wind sweeping down from 

 the mountain. A pair on the Belly River near the International 

 Boundary line were so excited by our advent that they, too, doubtless 



