Pintail ( Paflla acute I« 
IShile only this? ty~four sands have been returned from a total of two 
hundred and twenty-one pintails released th© distribution shown is the most 
reanrisable of that of any of the birds inoluded la tbs present actoount • Only 
seven^of 4 thJIo* birds- were silled near the mouth of deer Elver, five during 
Oatober of the same fell in whloh they were released, one probably secured 
in November, and on® in .April of the following spring# Other records for 
Utah corns from Bear Elver a few miles above its mouth, the mouth of the V/ebor 
liver, the Jordan Elver and the marshes wet of Salt Lake City, four during 
October and four during Slav amber of th® fall of their release# 
Many pintails seam to migrate to winter to the interior valleys of 
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California as shown by eight returns from the area between th© marshes above 
Bui sun Bay and the la&erial f alley south of tialig otnisu As might be expect¬ 
ed several of these birds war© shot in the extensive am? shea of the San Joaquin 
liver in Heroed and Fresno Counties# One bird released ingust 20 was killed 
near Dos Palos, Itoroed County on October 16 indicating an early migration, 
while two others were secured in Jovember# Two were noted in December and 
three in January, months when in normal years pintail© should all be absent 
from Utah# 
Proper interpretation mid presentation of data from states farther 
east is more difficult# Svideaoe indicates a line of flight to the north¬ 
ward to the drainage of the Missouri River, /a on® of tha raorioed birds was 
secured neqr Glasgow, Montana on Septestoo? 16* eleven days after its releas< 
Another fall record from farther south is that of a bird from near Ifyannio 
in the sandhill region of Nebraska. A report from near MarEham on the Gulf 
Coast of Texas would seem to represent a bitd in its winter hose# In the 
region fro$ the Mississippi River westward to the Great Plains numbers of 
