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some of the most gifted songsters in America. The less mu- 

 sical or more quiet species which I have observed at this sea- 

 son, include the Spotted Sandpiper, Richardson's Grouse, 

 Golden Eagle, several species of Hawks, Kingfisher, Raven, 

 Canada Jay, Rocky Mountain Jay, Pine Finch, Chipping 

 Sparrow, Violet-green Swallow, Bank Swallow, Yellow, Au- 

 dubon's, and Golden Pileolated Warblers, Chickadee and 



" A strange, plump little figure " 



Columbian Chickadee, Arctic Bluebird, and Dipper. Of 

 this anomaly among birds, this diving Thrush, I found a 

 nest late in July, 1901, in a rock fissure overhanging the 

 rushing waters of Fish Creek, at Glacier. It contained five 

 young, nearly fledged, which the parents fed as I sat within 

 a foot of their home. 



Swollen by the rapidly melting snowfields stretching 

 down from Asulkan Pass, the stream dashed by with so 

 great an uproar, that the human voice was inaudible from 

 bank to bank, a distance of not more than twenty feet, but 



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