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Exm this aocauat it would sees that a number of mllarus remain 
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in poods ami channels leapt ©pea by tha inflow of spring water after more 
extensive bodies of water are closed by ice. Such birds pass north in 
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suitable localities as far as the Saato Elver in Idaho. 
Befcuru records from other States are notable more for their wide 
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in Owens Valley* California (in -the Croat Dacia), on October 16, does 
not necessarily indicate an early migration fro® the Salt **ahe \alloy, 
for it had been at freedom for two years^ s ort , then g fa lti&al y probable, there 
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is ao AaiiXaifajm! certainty that it had come fro® Utah the year it was hilled. 
A second bird was ttdsen about Uaroh 1 in southeast ora Sew Mexico, end a 
third on December J®, west of Houston, Sexes. Part of the mallards from 
Salt Valley therefore go west into California and part into the 
drainage basins leading Into the western part of the Calf of Mexico. 
