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June 20, 1925, flew about 2,300 miles southeast to Alvarado, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, where it was killed on November 15, 1925; while a 

 third (A675440) made a trip of similar length and in the same 

 direction, from Webster, S. Dak., to a point near Habana, Cuba. 



The great blue heron {Ardca herodias) also makes long flights. 

 Two of these birds banded at Waseca, in southeastern Minnesota, 

 were recaptured almost due south in Central America. The first 

 (334487) was taken 1,900 miles distant at El Hule, State of Oaxaca, 

 southern Mexico, while the other (334402) Avas killed after a flight 

 of 2,600 miles to Gatun Lake, Panama. Still a third bird of this 

 species (204206), banded at Hat Island, in Green Bay, Wis., flew 

 southeast nearly 1,700 miles to the southern coast of Cuba, its capture 

 forming the first record for the race in that country. 



A long-billed curlew {Numenkis amerlcanus) (531112) banded at 

 Brigham City, Utah, flew southwest about 800 miles and was recap- 

 tured in northwestern lower California. 



Among the ducks the pintails {Dap a acuta) and blue- winged teals 

 {Querquedula discors) have made the longest flights. A pintail 

 (367451) banded at Ellinwood, Kans., flew northwest more than 

 3,300 miles to the mouth of the Kobuk River, Alaska; another 

 (227609) banded at Keno, Oreg., in September, was killed 2,800 

 miles to the southeast, near Belize, British Honduras; two others 

 (A638860 and A647295), both banded on the same day, one at the 

 Bear River Marshes in Utah, and the other at Dawson, N. Dak., 

 were killed on the same day by the same man at Toluca, near Mexico 

 City, Mexico. A blue- winged teal (A510183) banded at Ellinwood, 

 Kans., flew 1,800 miles southeast to Corocito, Honduras, while 

 another (531961), banded at the same j^lace, traveled more to the 

 eastward and was recaptured near Elia, Camaguey, Cuba. One of 

 these little ducks (363850), banded at Kearney, Nebr., flew southeast 

 about 2,600 miles to Santa Marta, Colombia, and another (4576), 

 banded at Lake Scugog in southern Ontario, was recovered after a 

 flight of about the same length, on the Island of Trinidad, off the 

 north coast of South America. 



Although not a large number of hawks have been banded, they 

 have yielded several return records of unusual interest. Among 

 these are a ferruginous rough-leg {Buteo regalis) (A709881), 

 banded at Rosebud, Alta., and killed 1,700 miles south at Alpine, 

 Tex.; a duck hawk {Falco feregrinus) (310753), banded at King's 

 Point, Yukon Territory, was killed at Duchesne, Utah, more than 

 2,000 miles south; a red-tailed hawk {Buteo horealis) (655444), 

 banded at Hepburn, Sask., flew south about 1,800 miles to Flatonia, 

 Tex.; and a marsh hawk {Circus hudsonius) (A697063), banded at 



