: distinguished by the black band across tine breast, fies | 
reddished yellow stripe above: the eye, and the two bands 
7 of the same color on the wing. 
On most of the trails of Summer Land a tourist may 
run across a very small deep-brown bird which will scold 
or sing according to its mood. Its curiosity to know all 
that happens near its home will probably bring this Western | 
Mt. Rainier—Taken by Miss May Copeland 
| ae Deep in Heather Bells | 
Winter Wren close enough so that it may be identified, and 
_ its tiny tinkling song may be enjoyed. Its restless energy, 
however, will soon send it on to search for insects through 
every square inch of shadowy undergrowth, while the 
visitor seeks other acquaintances. | 
- Some travellers on the mountain have heard the ery 
of “killee, killee, killee’ of a Desert Sparrow Hawk, and 
watched it as it poised, fluttering, above a victim, that might 
even have been a Clarke nutcracker. The latter’s inch-and- 
a-half greater length might have put a handicap on most 
eleven inch bird creatures, so that they would have fought 
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