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Mayhew
1950
Feb. 26
Conway Ranch, 2 miles east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif.
some Cinnamon Teal. At the southern
end of the main canal I found a ♂ + ♀
swimming together as though they were
already paired. When they flushed, they flew
about 100 yards up the ditch and
landed about 30 feet from another pair,
+ about 100 feet from still another pair.
In the air, the ♂ followed the ♀, just
as is the case with paired individuals.
A moment later the first pair flew
on up the ditch about 50 yards
farther, again with the ♀ leading the
way.
Mar. 6 Four pair flushed from a long, narrow
pond in a cut-over rice field. No two
pair were closer than 50 yards & each
other. In each case, the ♀ led & the ♂
followed. When I walked along the shore
of this pond, I flushed 10 more pairs that
took off singly as pairs, + 6 times I
flushed groups of birds that numbered
6 or more birds to a group. Each of these
groups consisted of exactly ½ ♂, ½ ♀.
In addition, at the eastern end of
the pond I flushed one flock of 25 birds,
another flock of 30 birds. Both flocks
contained both ♂ + ♀. This pond is in the
S.E. section of section 19.
Another pair was flushed from the main
drainage ditch at the south end of the ranch.