along the of the summit peaks in so open a region of course he is well seen everybody notices him and nobody at first knows what to make of him one he must be a another a crow or some sort of another a he seems to be a pretty thoroughly mixed and f ei compound of all these birds has all their strength cunning shyness and wary suspicious curiosity combined and he flies like a dead limbs for insects big holes in pine to get at the seeds cracks nuts held be national his toes cries like a crow or � but in a far louder and more forbidding tone of voice � and besides his crow and screams has a great variety of small chatter talk mostly uttered in a fault finding tone like the he articles that can be of no use to him once when i made my camp in a grove at cathedral lake i chanced to leave a cake of soap on the shore where i had been washing and a few minutes afterward i saw my soap flying past me through the grove pushed by a crow in winter when the snow is deep the of the mountain pines are empty and the and dwarf pine orchard buried he comes down to seeds in the yellow pine f startling the with his loud screams bat even in winter in calm weather he stays in his high mountain home the bitter frost once i lay through a three days storm at the timber line on mount and while the roaring snow laden blast swept by one of these brave birds came to my camp and began at the on the branches of half buried pines without showing the slightest distress i have seen feeding their young as early as june at a height of more than ten thousand feet when nearly the whole landscape was snow covered they are excessively shy and keep away from among the birds of the the as long as they think they are observed but when one goes on without seeming to notice them or sits down and keeps still their curiosity speedily gets the better of their caution and they come flying from tree to tree nearer and nearer and watch every motion few i am afraid will ever learn to like this bird he is so suspicious and self and his voice is so harsh that to most ears the scream of the eagle will seem melodious compared with it the who has and suffered and struggled must admire his strength and endurance � the way he faces the mountain weather the icy cares for his young and a living from the stem wilderness higher yet than dwells the little headed from early spring to late autumn he is to be found only on the snowy icy peaks at the head of the and his feeding grounds in spring are the snow sheets between the peaks and in and autumn the many bold insects go almost as soon as they are bom ascending the highest on the mild breezes that blow in from the sea every day during steady weather but comparatively few of these find their way down or see a flower bed again getting tired and chilly they alight on the snow fields and attracted perhaps by the national glare take cold and die there they lie as if on a white cloth purposely for them and the find them a rich and varied requiring no pursuit � bees and on ice and many a perpetual feast on tables big for guests so small and in vast halls by cool breezes that the feathers of the fairy happy fellows no rivals come to dispute possession with them no other birds not even as far as i have noticed so high they see people so seldom they flutter around the with the curiosity and come down a little way sometimes nearly a mile to meet him and conduct him into their icy homes when i was exploring the group climbing up the grand between the and red mountains into the fountain of an ancient just as i was approaching the small active that back in the shadow of mountain a flock of twenty or thirty of these httle birds the first i had seen came down the to meet me flying low straight toward me as if they meant to fly in my face instead of attacking me or passing by they round my head and fluttering for a minute or two then turned and escorted me up the on the nearest rocks on either hand and flying ahead a few yards at a time to keep even with me among the birds of the i have not discovered their winter quarters probably they are in the desert to the eastward for i never saw any of them in the winter refuge of so many of the mountain humming birds are among the best and most conspicuous of the flashing their throats in countless wild gardens far up the higher slopes where they would be least expected all one has to do to enjoy the company of these mountain mi ts is to display a blanket or handkerchief the is another delightful singing a wild cheery song and � carrying the sky on his back over all the gray and of the region a fine hearty good natured lot of dwell in the park and keep it lively all the year round among the most notable of these are the magnificent log cock the prince of and only second in rank as far as i know of all the of the world the large black glossy that and flies like a crow does but little and in great part on wild and and the carpenter who stores up great quantities of in the bark of trees for winter use the last named species is a beautiful 