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la comparison to soma of the othear ducks the Banker of mallards 
handled mo comparatively snail* as only 72 were banded and released dur¬ 
ing the throe seasons la which this work was carried on* Of these 22, 
a little more than thirty per oeat, wore hilled and reported subsequently. 
Seven were secured near the south of Sear River within a few miles of th£# 
place of r elm so, six of them, and. possibly the seventh, da tog the same 
fall ia which they had boon merited. The other fifteen individuals divide 
into two shin grcups, one 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 theAbirds made extended migrations to other regions* 
la October two birds marked toe tog tto preceding month were taken 
on Boar River mm Treraontoa not far ia an air line from the mouth of to© 
stream. Raring November these duoks any wander more extensively as though 
several were taken during this month near the mouth of Bear River, and one 
a Short distance from Tremonton, others were reported.west of Salt lake City 
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and on Utah L&ke near Provo. In ad¬ 
dition to those one was secured late in Hovember near Lotpn* Utah, and 
another on Snake River in Fremont County, Idaho. Record® for December are 
more widely scattered. One bird ms killed on Bear River near Collins ton 
on December 13, and another on the Logan River in Oaoto Valley, on December 
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28. In this aaos month a drake ms killed, tor to the south on the Sevier 
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River north of Delta, Utah. During January om was taken near Pebble in 
Bannoaic County, Idaho on the fourteenth and another near Stone in the sums 
state on the nineteenth. The latter bird wa at freedom from June 17, 1915 
to January 19, 1917* 
