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WILD ANIMALS OP fiLACIEB NATIONAL PARK. 



Mr. Gibb has found them in winter in snow from one to twontj'-five 

 feet deep, and saj's they roost in lioles in the snow. 



Franklin Grouse: Canach'ites franl-lini. — Tlie Irundsomest grouse 

 found in (he iiarlt is the small, trim Franklin, the male with his red 

 eye combs, and strikingly black and white banded plumage adapted 

 to the dark depths of the forest. One of them was found by Mr. 

 Bailey in dense lodgepole, spruce, and fir timber on the south fork 

 of Belly River in August, and in April a pair was flushed by him 



1 Biological tiurVL-y, 



Fir,. 42. — Franklin grouse. 



on the north shore of Kintla Lake. The Franklin is found mainly, 

 Mr. Gibb says, in the timber along the principal streams, such as 

 the north fork of Kennedy Greek, and Dr. (Jrinnell says they live 

 in the thickest timber, in damp, cool situations. In winter they are 

 said to stay up in the spruces and pines and live entirely on the 

 leaves of the conifers. 



A brood of three half-grown buffy -breasted and tailless youno- 

 were seen in the Waterton Valley about the middle of Aiigust. wan- 

 dering around enjoying themselves in deep, soft-carpeted woods of 

 spruce and fir, where they jumped up to pick black honeysuckle 

 ])erries from the low- busl^jes, or answered their mother's call to come 

 and eat thimbleberries. One of them, which flew up on a branch, also 



