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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



UTeat pileated, with its black body and fed-crested head, shoidd be 

 loolied foi' diligently. While it is a rare, shy bird, its presence 

 may be guessed by its hammering, its loud: chuch-chuch-chuch-chuck- 

 chvch-chucl'-ehuck, and by its borings — excavations, often two feet 

 long, made in the soft, decaj'ed wood of old trees. Borings were seen 



Photograph by Robert B. RockwoU- 



Fir,. fi.'H. — A family of recl-sliaftod flickeri5. 



in various places in the park, and near Sun Camp Mr. Bailey saw one 

 of the great birds at work. Mr. Stevenson reports the pileated from 

 the North Fork of the Flathead, and Mr. Bryant says it nests in the 

 tamaracks on the west side. 



Eed-iieaded Woodpecker : Melaner-pes eri/throccphaluK. — The red- 

 headed should be carefully distinguished from other woodpeckers 



