Some of the Conneeticut-banded blacks undoubtedly originated 
locally and from various points in other New England States. The Mari- 
time Provinces are involved also but only as far as flights into the 
eastern part of the state are concerned. This is shown by Marit ime- 
Province records from the East Lyme and Saybrook Stations in the south- 
east corner and the scarcity of such records for Litchfield, west of 
Hartford. This relationship between eastern Connecticut and the Maritime 
Provinces falls in line with the westerly portion of the main coastal 
flights coming out of eastern Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces, 
eastern Maine, and northeastern Massachusetts. Many of these northern 
birds leave the immediate coastline principally in Massachusetts above 
Cape Cod, and cross overland through Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut 
on their way south. Both the spring and fall bandings for eastern Conn- 
ecticut show this affinity for the Maritime region in the northeast and 
a strong relationship with coastal areas south to at least the Carolinas. 
Long Island 
For over 20 years there has been intermittent banding on Long 
Island and in the Bronx. The bulk of the banding has been done near 
the eastern end of the Island (Quogue and Southampton) and at the west- 
ern end (Wantagh), and in the New York City area, mainly the Bronx. 
There is a relatively large volume of shooting records--1,750 from all 
seasons are available. Reeords from both ends of the Island have been 
tabulated and mapped separately. As would be expected the western 
portion of the island is involved to a greater degree than the eastern 
end with birds coming out of southern Quebec and the Champlain-Hudson 
valley region and to a limited extent eastern Ontario. However, the 
differences in distritution of indirect recoveries from the various 
stations does not appear great enough to warrant a detailed analysis at 
this time. With Long Island we find the first indication of the mid- 
western influence that becomes quite pronounced in the Flyway from South 
Carolina to Florida. With the indirect recoveries, there are single 
records for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. 
Although the Long Island bandings are predominantly fall 
(1,091 recoveries), there are good series of records from winter (283) 
and spring (196) bandings. By a gross examination of the three series 
of tabulations, one finds a similarity in some respects with bandings 
on the coastal marshes of Massachusetts. Here again we find a heavy 
local take (80 percent) of first-season or direct recoveries. Even with 
the indirect recoveries 60 percent were taken locally. The distribution 
of direct recoveries south of the island (over 50 miles distant) is much 
the same as results from stations to the northeast. With the direct 
recoveries (273) banded before the hunting season, the southward records 
(to South Carolina) totaled 14 percent and the indirects (454) 9 percent. 
As was found with the summer bandings on Cape Cod, the Long Island birds 
exhibited a limited late summer northward movement at least as far as 
Ontario, the Maritime Provinces, Maine and Massachusetts. The indireet 
recoveries show the relationship of Long Island-banded birds with a some- 
what more expansive territory to the north and west than was true for 
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