. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 182 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIOKAL PAEK. bank swallows, although the unmarked, gray-breasted, rough-winged swallow also nests in colonies. Both the rough-winged and the bank are without the iridescent colors of the other swallows. Family BOMBYCILLIDiE: Waxwings. Bohemian Waxwixg : Bomljye'iUa garnda pallidiceps.—The fawn- colored, high-crested Bohemian waxwing, which breeds from Alaska to the northwestern border of the United States, should be looked for in the park. It may easily b
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. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 182 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIOKAL PAEK. bank swallows, although the unmarked, gray-breasted, rough-winged swallow also nests in colonies. Both the rough-winged and the bank are without the iridescent colors of the other swallows. Family BOMBYCILLIDiE: Waxwings. Bohemian Waxwixg : Bomljye'iUa garnda pallidiceps.—The fawn- colored, high-crested Bohemian waxwing, which breeds from Alaska to the northwestern border of the United States, should be looked for in the park. It may easily be told from the cedar waxwing, w h i c h breeds at the lower levels, by its larger size, brown forehead, and yellow and white wing mark- ings, but it also has the waxy red wing appendages and the yellow tail band of tlie cedar waxwing. One of the distin- guished looking birds was seen hj us July 18 in the firs below the Gran- ite Park chalet. During migra- tion, in 1887, "br. Grinnell found the Bohemians going about in close flocks of from 20 to 100, and extremely abundant about the St. IMary Lakes. He says: " Scarcely a day passed without one or more flocks being seen. They a]i- peared to prefer the mountain side to the valley, though flocks were seen a number of times among the firs and spruces of the Inlet Flat." Cedar Waxwing: Bomhycilla cedrorum-.—ln the bottoms of the Upper St. Mary Lake, where the tree swallows were nesting, the " beady note "' of the waxwing was heard July 22, and one was discov- ered apparently feeding young. On the Swiftcurrent, August 6, grown. From Handbook of Western Birds, (Ernest Thompson Seton.) Fig. S3.—Cedar waxwiug.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. United States. National Park Service; Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942; Bailey, Floren