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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIEB NATIONAL PAEK. 



hawk's nest on the Swiftcurrent at sunset, the sound of j)eent, pee- 

 auh, delighted mj' ear — here was a nighthawk inside the parlv at 

 hist! Still l)etter, there were two, tilting and pitching about, show- 

 ing their white wing bands. Creatures of air and sky, it seemed 

 rarel_y fitting that they should be here to explore the purple heights 

 and golden summits. On they went up toward the glacial basins of 

 Grinnell and Swiftcurrent, dark and somber now, but with buffy 

 clouds above their peaks, and lines of gilding and touches of light 

 vivifying the picture. 



The only other nighthawks seen by us in the park were flying about 

 near the International Boundary — a wide green swath down the for- 

 ested side of the mountains — the unfortified, unguarded line where 

 brother meets brother under the open sky. 



Photograph by E. R. Warren. 



Fig. 64. — Nighthawk. 

 Family MICROPODID^: Swifts. 



Vaux SwirT : Chatura vauxL — Three swifts, with their bony out- 

 line and irregular, batlike flight, were seen July 8 near Many 

 Glaciers, twittering softly as they flew high through the skj. 



AA^iiiTE-TiiROATED SwiFT : Ah'onciutes inelanoleucus. — Mr. Gird 

 thinks he has seen a swift with white underneath on the North Fork 

 of the Flathead and about Hanshaws Ford, three miles from the foot 

 of Bowman Lake ; and in June, 1895, Messrs. Bailey and Howell re- 

 ported " one seen at Paola and a pair at Columbia Falls." 



Family TROCHILID^: Hummingbirds. 



Black-chinned Humjiingbird : Archilochus aJexandri. — Both Mr. 

 Bryant and Mr. Stanford record the Hummingbird " with the black 

 gorget." Mr. Bryant says that years ago he shot several of them. 



