178 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



berg Lake. Young just out of the nest were seen by Mr. H. C. 

 liryant, of California, July 22, near Lake Josephine. The birds were 

 seen feeding grown young in many j^laees. Mr. Stevenson speaks of 

 seeing large flocks in spring and fall. While quiet birds that on your 

 appi'oach liide away in the bushes, the Juncos when sitting undis- 

 turbed in the sun have a pleasing little song, and their presence adds 

 a grateful touch of life to the forest. 



Mountain Song SrAURO'w : Mclospina melodia fallax. — Song spar- 

 rows were found in the bushes at the head of Sherburne Lake and 

 on Belly Eiver. One was found by Mr. Warren June 27, 1913, at 

 Iceberg Lake, and others were recorded by Mr. Bryant from the 

 North Fork of the Flathead, while a few were noted in 189.j bj- 

 IMessrs. Bailey and Howell at the St. ISIary Lakes. 



The possibility of finding the familiar song sparrow in tlie jiark 

 adds to one's zest in seai'ching among the bushes of the lake borders, 

 for though he is here a bird of the mountains and his brown back may 

 lie a different shade from the one known at home, the spot on his 

 streaked breast and the homely sweetness of his call and song are the 

 same — a different subspecies he is, but a song sparrow is a song 

 sparrow for a' that. 



Lincoln Sparrow : Mdospiza lincohii lincolni. — The Lincoln 

 sparrow should be carefully watched for about the willows of the 

 mountain meadows. While suggesting a small song sparroAV, his 

 bufly chest band, finely penciled breast, and individual song set him 

 a]>art from his relati\es. A bird that was taken for the Lincoln was 

 heard by Mr. H. C. Bryant, of California, in one of the mountain 

 meadows near the Sperry chalets. 



In 1895 Messrs. Bailej^ and Howell reported these sparrows com- 

 mon in the brush patches and willow thickets at the u^Dper St. Mary 

 Lake. They were also found tolerably common near Blackfeet 

 Agency, now Browning, and one or two were seen at Summit and 

 Midvale, a nest with four eggs being found June 18, at Summit. 



SljVte-colored Fox Sparrow : PassercUa iliaca schisfaeea. — Two 

 dominant songs are heard in following the trails along the willow- 

 bordered lake shores and through the open parts of the park, those 

 of the white-crowned sparrow and the slate-colored fox sparrow. 

 The black and white striped crown of the white-crown identifies 

 him readil}', but the dark gray head of the fox sparrow is less con- 

 spicuous, and unless you press close to the singer it is difficult to 

 make out the characteristic fox-colored spots on his breast and his 

 reddish tail. But once learned there is no mistaking his bright, 

 cheery song, and as he stands silhouetted against the astonishingly 

 green water of one of the beautiful mountain lakes the notes, with 



