Bedhead ( Har iM amerloans ). 
Boraastlc ties in the Bedhead family are as loose perhaps as among any 
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of the Horth American Bucks. Several females may use one nest for their eggs, 
v/hen ducklings appear they are self reliant little chaps that as of von as 
not start off on adventurous explorations of their own with no regard for the 
movements of their mother. Bie parent may forsake her charges when they are 
less than half grown and it is the rule for them to be left to their own 
devices at an early age. ©rough like certain otner children in their lacfe 
of respect for parental guidance and opinion ycung redheads are gregarious 
and seek company of others of the season’s hatching so that they ordinarily 
travel in company, These inexperienced birds as th^r passed the duck pens 
where birds convalescent from the duck sickness were confined came over in 
search of company and olambered out on shore in an atteapt to join the ducks 
in the cages. Trapping them when still unable to fly was an easy matter, so 
that in 1915 and 1916 many were captured and two hundred and thirty-nine were 
banded and released, fifty-one of these have been reported by Imuters, More 
than half, twenty-eight to be exact were taken in the Bear liver Marshes all 
during the fall of their release. The birds were marked in August and September. 
Two of the returns came during the month of September, one from a bird found dead 
from the duck sickness, and one from an individual drowned accidentally at the 
duck pens. Twenty-two were killed during October, a number potted by hunters 
as they passed in boats up or down the river, others^at points on the bays in 
the delta of the stream or near the river below Ooriima. Two were secured on 
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Hovember & and two on Bov ember 12# 
Among sixteen other records for Utah six cam© fron the vicinity of B©sr 
Blver above its mouth# or its larger tributaries within a radius of fifty miles# 
Five of these vfere secured between October 1 and 17 of the year of their release. 
