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BULLETIN 1H5, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



feathers marked this individual duck from others, so that it was 

 easily recognized. On September 23, after a week or two in cap- 

 tivity, the bird, now fairly tame, was banded and released. For a 

 month it lingered about the duck pens, though the shooting season 

 was on, and returned night and morning to be fed until late in 

 October, when the laboratory was closed for the season. About 

 February 1, 1915, this bird was captured in Oklahoma, and on 

 March 6 of the same year was reported still alive and in captivity. 



Table 6. — Record of returns for banded pintails. 



Pate released." 



Date recovered. 



riace recovered. 



State or Province. 



Locality. 



Sept. 16, 1914 



Do 



Oct. 10, 1914 



do 



Utah 





do 



Do. 



Sept. 23, 1914 



Aug. 27, 1916 



Sept. 17, 1916 



Oct. 10, 1916 c 



Late fall, 1914 



do 



Do. 



Oct. 12, 1916 6 



do 



Do. 



Oct. 4, 1916 



do 



Do. 



April, 1917 



do 



Do. 



Oct. 15, 1916 



Oct. 15, 1916 d 



do 



Do. 



Sept. 28, 1914 



Do 



Oct. 9, 1914 6 



do 



Near Bear River City, Boxeldcr County. 

 Third Creek between Hooper and Warren. 



Oct. 18, 1914 



do 



Do 



Oct. 19, 1914 



do 



Do... 



Nov. 14, 1914 



do 



Central Gun Club, west of Salt Lake City. 



Oct. 10, 1916 c 



Nov. 15, 1916 6 



do 



Do.c 



Oct. 24, 1916 



do 



4 miles north of Brigham City. 



Do.c 



Nov. 15, 1916 



do 



Sept. 29, 1916 



Sept. 16, 1914 



Aug. 20, 1916 



Late November, 



1920. 

 Apr. 13, 1916 

 Date uncertain/. . 

 Sept. 15, 1916 



Nov. 4, 1916 



Date uncertain/.. 

 Feb. 1, 1915 6 



do 



Do. 



Saskatchewan 



do 



Near Expanse. 



Sept. 4, 1916 



Sept. 16, 1914 



Do 









Glasgow. 



Oklahoma 



... .do 





Sept. 23, 1914 



Sept. 28, 1914 



Salt Plains of Alfalfa County. 

 2 miles north of Asbury. 



Jan. 26, 1915 



Jan. 26, 1917 



Feb. 25, 1917 





Sept. 25, 1914 





Near Markham, Matagorda County. 



Aug. 20, 1916 



do 





Sept. 4, 1916 



Aug. 27, 1916 



Jan. 29, 1918 



December, 1916... 



Dec. 5, 1917 



Nov. 20, 1916 



New Mexico 



Arroyo Pecos, 2i miles south of Las Vegas. 



Do 







Sept. 17, 1916 



do 



Near Cordelia, Solano County. 



Oct. 10, 1916 c 



Nov. 13, 1918 



do 



Near Alvarado. 



Aug. 20, 1916 



Do 



Oct. 16, 1916 



.do 





Jan. 29, 1917 



.do 



Near Brito, Merced Countv. 



Sept. 16, 1914 



Jan. 24, 1915 



..do 





Aug. 27, 1916 



Jan. 27, 1918 



...do 



Buena Vista Lake, near Bakorsfield. 



Sept. 28, 1914 



Dec. 2-8} 1917 



do 



Imperial Valley, south of Calipatria. 









a All banded and released at the mouth of Bear River, Utah, unless otherwise indicated. 



6 Approximate date. 



c Released near Geneva, on Utah Lake, Utah. 



d Reported December 5, 1917. 



< Reported March 6, 1915, as killed "some time ago." 



/ Killed by a hunter within an hour after release. 



The most easterly report of any of the banded ducks w ? as that of 

 a pintail shot on January 26 near Asbury, in western Missouri, pre- 

 sumably another migrant in northward flight. Two records for 

 southern Saskatchewan, Canada, one in April and the other of 

 uncertain date, mark the northern limit from which birds have been 

 reported. 



From these data we learn that after leaving Utah part of the 

 pintails go to California to winter in the interior valleys, while 

 others cross to the Great Plains and go southward to the Gulf 



