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Lake as specific breeding localities in Minnesota. The Pintail breeds commonly in North Dakota 
(Bent, 1901-02; Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 1884) and sparingly in South Dakota (McChesney, 
1879), according to Cooke (1906) at Vermilion, Scotland and Running Water in particular, while 
Visher (1909) says it breeds abundantly in certain counties. Cooke (1906) reports Kennedy and Hay 
Lake as the localities in which the species has bred in Nebraska, and recently Oberholser (1920) has 
stated that it nests commonly in the sandhill regions of the western districts, but I find no 
records of its nesting in Kansas. In Colorado it nests in Larimer, one of the northern counties 
(Smith, Breninger) as well as at Barr Lake near Denver, where it is not at all uncommon as a breeder 
(L. J. Hersey and Rockwell, 1909). North of Colorado, in Wyoming, the Pintail breeds, but is appar- 
ently rare (Grave and Walker, 1913; W. C. Knight, 1902). Cooke (1906) mentions Lake Desmet 
as a particular locality. It breeds in various suitable localities in Montana (A. A. Saunders, 1921) 
and farther west the species undoubtedly breeds in Idaho (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, 1884) and 
certainly does so in Washington (W. L. Dawson and Bowles, 1909), specifically at Mabton (Cooke, 
1906). It appears to be a not rare nester at Malheur Lake in Oregon, and Cooke (1906) mentions 
Rock Creek Sink as a definite locality for that State. On the other hand this duck is so much more 
common as a breeding bird in California that I do not believe it is to be regarded as a sporadic nester 
in the State. Grinnell, Bryant and Storer (1918) quote authorities for its nesting in Sutter, Alameda, 
Merced, Kings, Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. This is apparently the 
region in which the breeding range extends farther south than anywhere else in the world. For the 
region lying between California and Colorado I find that it has several times been met with in mid- 
summer in Nevada at Washoe Lake (Hanford, 1903) and on the Humboldt River (W. C. Hanna, 
1904), while in Utah a considerable number breed on the Bear River marshes (Wetmore, 1921). 
Cooke (1906) states that it breeds questionably at Mormon Lake, Arizona, and I have little doubt 
that it breeds in suitable localities in the northwestern part of this State, as well as in Nevada and 
Utah. 
In the Old World its breeding range extends north to 71° 30' or even 72° and south normally to 
Europe it breeds commonly only north of 60°. In Iceland it is known to 
breed not rarely, and has been long known to do so, as is shown by Hantzsch’s (1905) 
compilation of recent dates. It is only a very rare straggler to Greenland; there is one 
specimen from Nanortalik in the Schioler collection (Schioler, 1912). As far as I know it has never 
been recorded as actually breeding on the Faroes, though it is not rare there in summer, 
and undoubtedly breeds occasionally (H. C. Mtiller, 1869). Millais (1902) says that a 
few nest on the Faroes, his information probably coming from later verbal statements of MUller. 
Shetlands Henderson (1906) in recent years, has reported its nesting on the Shetlands, but it ap- 
parently does so only rarely. In Scotland, on the other hand, it is known to have bred 
in the Orkneys, on the Outer and Inner Hebrides, in Sutherland and Kinross, Moray, 
Inverness, South Fife, Selkirk, as well as in other localities (Baxter and Rintoul, 1921). There seems 
England some doubt as to whether the species breeds in England, though it has apparently 
done so in Northumberland (Seebohm, 1885). According to Payne-Gallwey (1882) 
it has nested in Ireland in Queen’s County, and in Galway. There are no other breed- 
ing records for Ireland (Ussher and Warren, 1900). On the Continent this duck nests in small 
Germany numbers in certain localities in Germany, having been recorded from Schleswig- 
Holstein, Mecklenbrng, Oldenburg, Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Brunswick, eastern 
Prussia, Brandenburg, Silesia, Saxony, Anhalt and doubtfully from Bavaria. In parts of Branden- 
burg and Silesia it appears to breed not uncommonly (Naumann, 1896-1905). It may be well to 
mention here the southern breeding records for Europe, all of which are to be regarded as unusual. 
One nest was taken in 1909 on the island of Texel, Holland (Van Eecke, Ardea, vol. 1, p. 67, 1912). 
In France the species seems to breed sparingly on La Brenne plateau, southeast of 
Tours (Martin, 1887), and occasionally on the Maine River (Rogeron, 1903). Clarke 
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