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haTm<? red patches on the head. In the red-head the entire head 

 iind neck down to the white breast and the bhick back is crimson, and 

 the rinnp and a wide patch near the ends of the win^s are solid wliite. 

 Mr. Gibb thinks he has seen it on Belly River and Kennedy Creek, 

 and a few around St. Mary Lake and Lake McDermott, and reports 

 it from Belton, in winter. Mr. Stevenson also records it from the 

 west side of the park. 



Lewis Woodpecker: Asyndesmus levrisi. — Mr. Stevenson writes 

 that he has seen the Lewis woodpecker — with iridescent greenish 

 black upperparts, gray collar, crimson face, and rose-pink l^elly — on 

 the North Fork of the Flathead ; and Mr. Liebig writes that he once 

 secured three specimens at the head of Lake McDonald and one near 

 Belton. 



Red-shafted Flicker : Colaptes cafcr coUaris. — Flickers were fre- 

 quentl}^ seen in early August on the level floor of the horse pasture 

 below Many Glaciers; as usual, looking for ants on the ground. 

 When they rose they showed the rich salmon wing linings which 

 have given them their name. The golden-shafted flicker is recorded 

 by Mr. Bryant from the Flathead Valley, and in 1895 Messrs. Bailey 

 and Howell secured a specimen at the L^pper St. Mary Lake which 

 was a typical red-shafted except for its head and neck, which were 

 like those of the golden-shafted. 



The red-shafted were seen in a number of places, mainly in the 

 lower parts of the park, such as St. Mary Lake, the Swiftcurrent 

 Flats, Belly River, Lake McDonald, and the open areas along the 

 North Fork from Dutch Creek to Kintla Creek, especially at the 

 Adair ranch and on the Big Prairie section, but they were also seen 

 in the Kootenai Pass, August 22, and heard by Mr. Bryant at Iceberg 

 Lake July 28, 1917. Mr. Stevenson reports finding a number of nests 

 in the park. 



Order MACROCHIRES : Nighthawks, Swifts, and 

 Hummingbirds. 



Family CHORDEILID/E: Nighthawks. 



Pacific Nighthawk: Chordeiles minor he.tperis. — Nighthawks 

 have been noted in the park by Mr. Gibb and Mr. Stevenson, and 

 also by Mr. Bryant, who has found them in the prairie patches along 

 the North Fork of the Flathead. 



Early in July, from the western windows of Glacier Park Hotel 

 at sunset one of the slender-winged birds was seen tilting about 

 in the purple middle distance between the hotel and the mountains, 

 getting his evening meal. A montl- Inter, while watching the fish 



