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BULLETIN 1145, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Though the slender evidence available indicates a migration of 

 this species from northern Utah to the Gulf coast of Texas, it is 

 probable that with further data some birds marked in the same 

 region will be recovered in California. Normally, the majority of 

 the cinnamon teals leave the region around Great Salt Lake before 

 the 1st of October, so that only straggling individuals are found 

 later, after the opening of the shooting season. 



Table 4. — Record of returns for banded cinnamon teals. 



Date released. 1 



Date recovered. 



Place recovered. 



State. 



Locality. 



Oct. 3, 1916 



Oct. 6, 1916 



Nov. 4, 1916. . 



Utah 





Sept.l, 1916 



Sept. 2, 1916 



Sept. 4, 1916 



Sept. 16, 1914 



...do 





Oct. 1, 1917 



...do 



Bear River marshes, 3 miles north of Duck- 



ville Gun Club. 

 Marshes at mouth of Jordan River. 

 Mainer Lake, Brazoria County, west of 



Galveston. 



Oct. 8, 1916 



Jan. 20. 1915 



...do 



Texas 





1 All banded and released at the mouth of Bear River, Utah. 



SHOVELER, OR SPOONBILL. 



The percentage of returns on banded shovelers, or spoonbills, was 

 slightly higher than in the case of the cinnamon teal, as from a total 

 of 48 birds released 9 were subsequently reported (see Table 5). 

 Six of these were killed in the Bear River marshes (several in South 

 Bay, one on the Salt Creek marshes, and one on the Chesapeake 

 Bay) from a few days to several weeks after they had been banded. 

 One was captured at the mouth of the Weber River, and another at 

 the mouth of the Jordan, near Salt Lake City. The remaining bird 

 was taken near Vallejo, Calif., nearly 14 months after it had been 

 released. From this slight evidence it appears that some spoonbills 

 migrate from Utah to pass the winter in California. 



Table 5. — Record of returns for banded shovelers. 



Date released. 1 



Date recovered. 



Place recovered. 



State. 



Locality. 



Sept. 29, 1914 Oct. 17. 19U 



Utah. 



Mouth of Bear River. 



Sept.l, 1916 



Sept. 25, 1916 



Sept. 28, 1916 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Sept. 29, 1916 



Sept.l, 1916 



Oct. 12, 1916 



...do 



Do. 



Oct. 7, 1916 



Oct. 1, 1916 



...do 



...do 



Do. 

 Do. 



Oct. 8, 1916 



...do 



Do. 



Oct. 7, 1916 



..do 



Do. 



Oct. 21, 1916 



...do 



Mouth of Weber River. 



Oct. 20. 1916 2 



Oct. 28, 1917 



...do 



Mouth of Jordan River. 

 Near Vallejo. 







1 All banded and released at the mouth of Bear River, Utah. 



2 Approximate date. 



