One of these, a bird captured cm the salt plains of the Salt 
Fork of the Arkansas diver in Oklahoma, had a history,* of »wvi.<nmi 
interest. In September, 1914, a pintail helpless with the duck 
sickness ms noted on the flats of South Bay, as the writer ms 
crossing in a mud-boat - a flat-bottomed lauaalyvith •egt^autoaoblle 
aa-fsot ive- power 
steel-bladed paddle wheels on either 
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sue. 
A motion to the steersman ms sufficient to clsrago the sours© slight¬ 
ly, so that dashing past in a spray of nwl and water, a veritable 
charging juggernaut, it ms possible to lean out, seise the duck, .and 
draw it in. A peculiar orescent of white feathers merited this individual 
duck from others so that it ms easily recognised. On September 23 
after a week or two in captivity the bird, now fairly tame, was banded 
as m 
4 , —a it lingered about the duck pens,^ returning 
W\*. KAt’tiuQ Cs(a^M q (*yv\ ^ 
o hi fed, - ™ —^ — 
night and morning to 
though the shooting season was on, 
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February 1, 1915, this bird was captured alive in Oklahoma and on Harch 6 
of the same year was still alive and in captivity. 
fflte most eastern report of any of the banded ducks was that of 
it 
a pintail shot cm January 26 near Asbury, in western Missouri, presumably 
another migrant in northward flight, Swo records fear southern Saskatchewan 
one in April and the other of uncertain date mark the northern limit from 
which birds have been reported. 
