Pintail ( Daflla acuta i • 
Will© only thirty-four bands have been returned from a total of two 
hundred and twenty-one pintails released the distribution shown is the most 
remarkable of that of any of the birds included in the present account. Only 
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seven of these birds were hilled near the mouth of Bear Elver, five during 
October of the same fall in which they were released, one probably secured 
in November, and one in April of the following spring. Other records for 
Utah come from Bear Eivar a few miles above its mouth, the mouth of the Weber 
River, the Jordan Elver and the marshes west of Salt Lake Oity, four during 
October and four during November of the fall of their release. 
Many pintails seem to migrate to winter to the interior valleys of 
California as shown by eight returns from the area between the marshes above 
Suisun Bay and the Imperial Talley south of Oali^a&nia. As might be expect¬ 
ed several of these birds were shot in the extensive marshes of the San Joaquin 
Elver in Merced and Fresno Counties. One bird, released August 20 was hilled 
near Dos Palos, Merced County on October 16 indicating an early miration, 
while two others were secured in Ifoweaber. two were notes in December and 
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three in January, months when in normal years pintails should all be absent 
from Utah. 
Proper Interpretation and presentation of data from states farther 
east is more difficult. Evidence indicates a line of flight to the north- 
rard to the drainage ef the mssourl Hirer, A one of the merhed hlrde was 
secured near Glasgow, Montana on September 15, eleven days after its release. 
Another fall record from farther south is that of a bird from near Ifyannis 
in the sandhill region of Nebraska. A report from near Markham on the Gulf 
Coast of Texas would seem to represent a btid in its winter home. In the 
region frog the Mississippi River westward to the Great Plains numbers of 
