Mallard {ABBA alatyrhyncfros ) ♦ 
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In comparison to some of the ofcher A ducks the number of mallards 
handled was comparatively small, as only 72 were handed and released dur¬ 
ing the three seasons in which this work was carried on. Of these 22, 
a little more than thirty per cent, were killed and reported subsequently. 
Seven were secured near the mouth of Bear Elver within a few miles of th£v v 
place of release, six of them, and possibly the seventh, during the same 
fall In which they had been marked. The other fifteen Individuals divide 
into two main groups, on© in which the birds remained until late fall or 
winter in the same general region as the mouth of Bear River, and another 
in which the* birds mad© extended migrations to other regions. 
In October two birds marked during the preceding month were taken 
on Bear River near Tremonton not far in an air line from the mouth of the 
stream, During November these ducks my wander more extensively as though 
several were taken during this month sear the mouth of Bear Blve?, ami one 
a short distance from Tremonton, others were reported west of 
Bake City 
in the sloughs near Or eat Salt Lak^, and on Utah Lake near Provo. In ad¬ 
dition to these one was secured late in November near Logan, Utah, and 
another on Snake River in Fremont County, Idaho. Records for December are 
more widely scattered. One bird was killed on Bear River near Collinston 
on December 13, and another on the Logan River In Cache Valley, on December 
28. In this same month a drake was ieM b lnd far to the south on the Sevier 
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River north of Delta, Utah. During January one was taken near Pebble in 
Bannock County, Idaho on the fourteenth and another near Stone in the same 
state on the nineteenth. The latter bird was at freedom from June 17, 1915 
to January 19, 1917. 
