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young were seen with their parents in the willow thickets of the bot- 

 tom eating black honeysuckle berries. In the Belly River country 

 they Avere frequently seen, and they were also found in the Waterton 

 Lake Valley and at Lake McDonald. 



Family LANIID^: Shrikes. 



White-eumped Sheike : Lanius liidoviclanus excuMtorides. — Sev- 

 eral times in the fall of 1887 Dr. Grinnell saw the white-rumped 

 shrike — with hooked bill, black eye stripe', slaty upperparts, and 

 l)lack and white wings and tail — on the Upper St. ISIary Lake and in 

 the valley of the St. Mary River. 



Family VIREONID^: Vireos. 



Western Warbling Vieeo: Vlreosylva gilva sivainsoni. — The low 

 pleasing ix)und of the little olive-drab vireo was frequently heard 

 in the willow thickets along watercourses in tJie park — at Glacier 

 Park Hotel, St. Mary Lake, Swiftcurrent Creek Flats, Gunsight 

 Lake, Crossley Lake. Belly River, and Lake McDonald. 



Family MNIOTILTIDiE: Wood Warblers. 



Black and White Warbler: Mniot'dta varia. — A black and white 

 striped Mniotilta was seen, August 26, creeping over the trunks and 

 branches at Lake McDonald, and Mr. Bryant is sure that he has seen 

 the bird on the North Fork of the Flathead. 



Orange-cbowned Warbler: Vermivora celata orestera. — A number 

 of the dull olive-green orange-crowned warblers were seen, August 

 22, in a chaparral basin on the Kootenai Trail with a fall flock of 

 migrants, and others were seen a week later in several places in the 

 vicinity of McDonald Lake. 



Yellow Warbler: Bendroica a'sfiva cpsfira. — Yellow warblers, 

 their underparts streaked with rufous, were found in willowy and 

 brushy thickets at Glacier Park, the Swift- 

 current Flats, Upper St. Mary Lake, Belly 

 River, and Lake McDonald. In 189-5 

 ]\Iessrs. Bailey and Howell found a nest 

 just completed on June 12. 



Audubon Waeblee : Dendroica auduboni 

 auduboni. — The handsome Audubon, which 

 in flying from you flashes a bright yellow 

 rump patch and when hunting for insects 

 near by shows his yellow tliroat patch and From sioioeicai survey. 

 black, yellow, and white under .markings, ^'°- s*— ^-i-^'-- -"^er. 

 is one of the most abundant and conspicuous warblers of the Glacier 

 Park forests. In gathering insects for his young he goes about 



