from this account It wmM sects that a awake* of mallards remain 
in ponds amt channels kept open toy the inflow of spying water after more 
extensive todies of water are closed ’ay ioe, Suoh birds pass north fie -v* 
suitable localities as far as the Snalco Biver in Utah* 
uUwsb 
Xieturn aofiee^frora other states are notable mote for their wide 
scatter in?? than anything else* One tended bird secured near Bishop in 
t . • '• 
Owens Talley* California {in the Great Basin) on October 16, may or my 
not indicate mx early migration from the Salt hake Talley* as the bird 
had been at freedom for two years there is no definite certainty that it 
had same from Utah tho year it was hilled though this is highly probable. 
A second bird ms taken about iSareh 1 in southeastern Hew Head. 00 , a ad a 
third on Becenber 28, west of Houston, Texas, Part of the mallards from 
Sait Lake Talley that ©fore go west into California and a part into the 
drainage 'basins leading into the western pert of the Gulf of Mexico. 
A synopsis of all of the return records for this species is given 
in the following paragraphs: 
UTAH*(mouth of Bear Biver). Banded September 16* 1914; recovered fall 
• . ' 
of 1914, (This bird and the one following were killed sometime after 
November 1 of the same year la which they were marked*) Banded September 
25, 1914; recovered fall of 1914. Banded September 17, 1916; recovered 
November 28, 1916. Banded September 28, 1916; recovered November 12, 1916 
Banded September 28, 1916; recovered November 12, 1916. Banded October 23 
n^noJUo<hC\ 
1916; recovered November 15, 1916. The band of another Mr4>killed during 
the late fall of 1915 was lost so that information as to the date of band¬ 
ing is not available. 
All birds were banded and released near the mouth of Sear Biver, Utah. 
