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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



had callow yornig hidden on the banks of the curving river. Grov?n 

 young were seen along beaver ponds in various places, all new and 

 fresh, plump, snowy-breasted little fellows with the grayish suffusion 

 on the chest at the bend of the wings. 



Canadian Curlew : Numenius americanus occidentalis. — In the 

 early summer of 1S!)5, Messrs. Bailey and Plowell reported the brown- 

 streaked curlew with the long decurved bill not only from the plains, 

 l)ut the St. Mary Eiver, and once from the Upper St. Mary Lake. 

 Several pairs were seen about June 8. 



Family CHARADRIIDiE: Plovers. 



Black-bellied Plover: Squatarola squatarola. — A mounted speci- 

 men of the black-bellied plover with the minute hind toe, in fall plum- 



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Fig. 41.— Killdeer. 



age, was seen by Mr. Bailey in the collection of Mr. Frank F. Liebig, 

 at Kalispell. During a cold storm it was found helpless and chilled 

 on Swiftcurrent Pass, and en being carried home by Mr. Liebig, lived 

 several months on bread crumbs and flies. 



Killdeer : Oxyechus vociferus vocifer-us. — Though the killdeer — 

 recognized on the wing by its familiar kill-dee, kill-dee, and on the 

 ground by its two black chest bands, white forehead and collar, and in 

 disappearing by its ochraceous rump patch — is not common in the 

 park, it is reported from a number of localities in the low country. 

 Mr. Gibb says it breeds at Sherburne Lake, and jMr. Bryant reports 

 it from the valleys of the north and middle forks of the Flathead, 

 while Mr. Gird adds Belly River and the INIcDonald Lake country. 

 At McDonald Lake, one was seen by Mr. Bailey April 21, 1918, 

 flying along the shore. 



