Green-winged Teal (ifettlon carolinenea ). 
Of the total number of birds banded 336 or slightly more than 
one fourth were of the present speoies; white 49 of those marked have 
been reported by hunters. Among 23 of these birds killed near the mouth 
of Bear River near their place of release 21 were taken during the same 
fall in which they were set at freedom after periods varying from a few 
days to more than a month. Ttoo however survived for slightly more than 
a year only to be taken In this same region. Seven othersM*4s were re¬ 
ported from Utah, two from the mouth of the Weber River, and four from the 
marshes along the Jordan Rives* or the slou^is west of Salt Lake City. One, 
set at liberty on Utah Lake was killed in the same vicinity two days later. 
All were taken during the same fall in which they were banded. 
It would appear that the majority or at least many of the green- 
winged teal found in fall in the Salt Late Talley pass in migration to 
California as nineteen of the return records ooae from that state. Several 
were secured in the southern Sacramento Talley and others farther south in 
the marshes of the San Joaquin River In Merced and Fresno counties. Rone 
were found north of Sacramento hat to the southward records oome from as 
far down as Semitropio and Wasco in Kern County in the interior and from 
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Orange County isouth of Los Angeles f on the coast. A coasted record of 
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interest is that from Watsonville, in Santa Crus County south of San Francisco 
Bay. Several were secured in the famous ducking grounds in the vicinity of 
Los Banos. One of these individuals was seoured as early as lovember 17, 
but the others were taken during the months of December and January. 
Elsewhere one bird was recorded from near Miami in^outh/Central 
Arizona in December, and one near Sanford in southern Colorado in March. 
