ever seen him. The Western evening grosbeak, 

 a bird with attractive plumage and pleasing 

 manners, often winters here. The brilliant lazuli 

 bunting, the Bullock oriole, the red-shafted 

 flicker, and the dear and dainty goldfinch are 

 present in summer, along with mockingbirds, 

 wrens, tanagers, thrushes, and scores of other 

 visitants. 



A few migratory species winter about the 

 foot of the peak. In summer they fly to the 

 upper slopes and nest and raise their young 

 in the miniature arctic prairies of the heights. 

 With the coming of autumn all descend by easy 

 stages to the foot. The full distance of this ver- 

 tical migration could be covered in an hour's 

 flight. Many of the north-and-south-migrating 

 birds travel a thousand times as far as these 

 birds of vertical migration. 



The big game which formerly ranged this 

 peak included buffalo, deer, elk, mountain sheep, 

 the grizzly, the black bear, the mountain lion, 

 the fox, the coyote, and the wolf. Along the 

 descending streams, through one vertical mile 

 of altitude, were beaver colonies, terrace upon 



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