Proper interpretation and presentation of data from States 
farther east is more difficult, fho evidence Sadloatos & line of 
flight to the northward to the drainage of the Missouri Elver* as 
one of the marked birds was seoured near Glasgow, Montana, on September 
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15, eleven days after its release* Another fall record from farther 
south is that of a bird from near Eyaaais la the sandhill region of 
Rebraste. A report from near Markham, on the Gulf a oast of Terns, 
would seas to represent a bird in its winter horn* la the region 
from the Mississippi Elver westward to the Great Plains numbers of 
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pintails linger through the winter south of the line- of ioe and with 
the ooraing of open water la the earliest of spring thaws crowd eagerly 
aorttemrd during favorable weather, perhaps to be drive* southward 
again in a few days by a sudden frees® that closes the streams and 
ponds. Chair numbers are increased late in January by birds coming 
from winter homes farther south• Reports from Oklahoma and eastern 
lest Mexico at the end of January, and from the panhandle of Seans near 
the end of February, are supposed to represent such restless early 
migrants. 
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