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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIOKAL PAEK. 



bank swallows, although the unmarked, gray-breasted, rough-winged 

 swallow also nests in colonies. Both the rough-winged and the bank 

 are without the iridescent colors of the other swallows. 



Family BOMBYCILLIDiE: Waxwings. 



Bohemian Waxwixg : Bomljye'iUa garnda pallidiceps. — The fawn- 

 colored, high-crested Bohemian waxwing, which breeds from Alaska 

 to the northwestern border of the United States, should be looked 

 for in the park. It may easily be told from the cedar waxwing, 



w h i c h breeds at 

 the lower levels, by 

 its larger size, 

 brown forehead, 

 and yellow and 

 white wing mark- 

 ings, but it also has 

 the waxy red wing 

 appendages and the 

 yellow tail band of 

 tlie cedar waxwing. 

 One of the distin- 

 guished looking 

 birds was seen hj 

 us July 18 in the 

 firs below the Gran- 

 ite Park chalet. 



During migra- 

 tion, in 1887, "br. 

 Grinnell found the 

 Bohemians going 

 about in close flocks 

 of from 20 to 100, 

 and extremely 

 abundant about 

 the St. IMary Lakes. 

 He says : " Scarcely 

 a day passed without one or more flocks being seen. They a]i- 

 peared to prefer the mountain side to the valley, though flocks 

 were seen a number of times among the firs and spruces of the 

 Inlet Flat." 



Cedar Waxwing: Bomhycilla cedrorum-.—ln the bottoms of the 

 Upper St. Mary Lake, where the tree swallows were nesting, the 

 " beady note "' of the waxwing was heard July 22, and one was discov- 

 ered apparently feeding young. On the Swiftcurrent, August 6, grown 



From Handbook of Western Birds, (Ernest Thompson Seton.) 



Fig. S3. — Cedar waxwiug. 



