pintails ling®* through tho winter south o t the line of ice and with the 
©Offline of open water in the earliest of spring thaws crowd eagerly northward 
during favorable weather perhaps to be- driven southward again in a few dcys 
by a sudden spell of freezing weather that closes the streams ana. ponds, fhelr 
number is inareased in late January by birds coming from whiter homes farther 
south, Beporta from Glclailbraa and eastern Wm Hsadoo at the end of January 
and from the panhandle of ferns near the cod of February are supposed to 
represent sueh restless early migrants. One of these a bird captured on the 
©alt plains of the Salt Forh of the Arkansas Bitit in Oklahoma had a history 
of unusual Interest* 
* . 
In September* 1914 While crossing the flats of South Bey in a nod-boat* 
a flat-bottomed launch with an automoMle engine as motive power to drive 
stool-bladed paddle wheels on either ©Mo* designed to run over smooth olay 
and barely covered with water, X noted a pintail helpless with the duoie Bias¬ 
ness in the raid at oneoside* A motion to the steersman of our or aft was suf¬ 
ficient to ohattj© our course slightly and at we dashed past in a spray of taud 
and water* a veritable charging Juggernaut, X leaned out and seized the duoie and 
drew it in, A peculiar orescent of white feathers fflarhed this individual duoh 
from others so that it ms easily recognized. After a weeh or two in captivity 
the bird now fairly tame was banded and released on September 23, Bhtil 1 left 
Duoisvllle a month later it lingered about the duo A pens ro turning night and 
morning to be fed* though the shooting season was open. About February 1, 1915 
this bird was captured alive in. Qielaha 
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and on March 6 of the sa 
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year ms 
still in os&tlvlty* 
file most eastern report of any of these banded duoiss ms that of a 
pintail shot cm January 26* near Asaury in western Missouri* presumably another 
migrant in northward flight, Two records for southern Sashatdhewan* on© in 
