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WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 



of well-grown j^oung — yellowish-breasted young that tilted their tails 

 like their parents, but still had a decided air of staying where they 

 were put — an air Avhose reason- was explained when their business- 

 like, knowing parents quietly whisked them out of danger's way. 



Family CINCLID^: Dippers. 



Water Ouzel : Cinclus mexicanus unicolor. — The water ouzel, also 

 called clipper from its wren-like habit of bobbing or dipping, one of 

 the most remarkable birds of the West, can be easily watched at its 

 nest by even the hurried visitor to the park. From the bridge over 



Photu. by J. Rowley, Courtesy of Bird-Lore. 



Fig. 88. — Water ouzel at entrance to nest. 



the Swiftcurrent — only a few steps from Many Glaciers Hotel — 

 where trains of saddle horses and automobile stages go rushing by, a 

 pair of the short-tailed gray " water wrens " were seen flying swiftly 

 low over the water on their way back and forth between their feed- 

 ing grounds along the lake above and their nest at the foot of the 

 waterfall below. And from- the top of the gorge, marking the his- 



