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Domatlo ties in the Redhead family are a® loos© perhaps a® among any 
of the Hot th American Bucks• Several females may nee on® nest for their eggs, 
and Aon dudclings appoiff they as?® self reliant Hfcti® diaps that as often as 
not start off on adveatur ous exploratl on® of their ora with no regard for the 
niovo!aonts of their mother. SSi© parent may 5.ors&fc»J5 imm? charges when they are 
lass than half grown and it is th® rule for than to bo left to their ora 
dor loo® at an early age* Though lifts oer tain Other children in their lacte 
of roepeot for parental guidance and opinion young redhead® are gregarious 
and seen company of others of the season's hatching so that they ordinarily 
travel in company* These inexporienoad birds a® they passed the duels pen® 
where bird® convalescent from the duels Biocnoss were confined cam over in 
search of company and clamber ed out on shore in an at leapt to Join the duel® 
in the cages, Trapping them Aon still unable to fly was an easy mutter, so 
that in 1915 and 1915 Any were captured and two hundred and thirty-nine were 
banded and released, fifty-one of these have be m reported by hunters. Uo*e 
than half, twenty-eight to be exact wore taisen in the Bear River Marsha® all 
daring the fall of their release. ®he birds wore marked in august sad September. 
Two of the returns case during 1 the month of September# one from a bird found dead 
from the duels aldoses®, and on© from an individual drowned accidentally at the 
duels pens. Twenty-two were hilled during October, a number potted by hunters 
as they passed in boats up or down the river, others at points on the oays in 
the delta of the stream or near the river below Cor inn®. Two were secured on 
Hovember & and two on Hovamber 12# 
Among sixteen other record® for Utah six came from th© vicinity of Bear 
River above its mouth, or its larger tributaries within a radius of fifty miles, 
five of these were secured between October 1 and 17 of the year of their release. 
