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Glaciers, and they are said to nest c<inimonly in suitable localities 

 throughout the park. 



Some of the robins winter as far north as southern British Colum- 

 bia, and from April 9-H), 191S, Mr. Bailey found them common from 

 Belton up through the North Fork valley, especially from Dutch 

 Creek to Big Prairie. "At Adair's ranch they were numerous, and 

 busy hunting worms in the meadow and singing from the tree tops." 



NonTiiEKx Varied Thrush : Lroreus nwvius me7'"uloides. — The va- 

 ried thrush, Avliose size and rusty brown breast might suggest a rusty 

 robin with a black necklace, was seen or heard in a number of places 



PhoLograph by E. R. V<''d 



Fig. 93. — Western robin. 



during the nesting season; and Mr. Bryant says it winters half way 

 up the mountains, in the heavy timber near open water or springs, 

 where it can doubtless find berries, such as mountain ash, high-bush 

 cranberry, and yew. On April 9, 1918, Mr. Bailey found varied 

 thrushes singing on both sides of the river at Belton, and during the 

 next two weeks found them around Lake McDonald and at various 

 points along the North Fork nearly to Kintla Creek, their long- 

 thrilling note often coming from deep woods where there was still 

 two or three feet of snow. 



In Auo-ust, on the Kootenai Trail near the home of the winter 

 wren family, a spotted-breasted young varied thrush was seen in a 



