Continuing on down the coast we find that approximately 11 
percent of the Ontario direct recoveries are from North and South 
Carolina, with the latter accounting for about two-thirds. About 4 
pereent were recovered in Georgia and Florida. From the standpoint 
of distribution, the percentage of Ontario direct recoveries in the 
Middle Atlantic states is less than that from some of the northeastern 
stations. In the south Atlantic area, however, there is a higher per- 
centage of Ontario recoveries. Actually a comparison of these percent- 
ages may lead to erroneous conclusions but, as will be seen later, the 
results of the northern bandings apparently check with the recoveries 
from southern bandings (p.27). 
Since the Ontario recoveries are so widely dispersed, group- 
ing them by flyway and region is perhaps the best way to show relative 
distribution. 
Percentage of recoveries 
Direct (672) Indirect (290) 
Atlantic Flyway 
Virginia north 20.9 30.3% 
N. Carolina south 15.2 16.8 
Mississippi Flyway 
Kentucky-Missouri north 19.3 15.5 
Arkansas-Tennessee south 9.8 10.3 
Central Flyway 
Nebraska north 0.0 0.7 
Kansas south 1.2 0.0 
Canada 
Eastern: 0.0 0.3 
Ontario, including local and 
western Quebec recoveries 35.7 25-5 
Western: 0.0 1.0 
* New England portion amounting to only 1.4 percent of the 290 recoveries. 
Indirect recoveries in the west shore region of James and 
Hudson Bays show a close relationship of the Scugog blacks with this 
northern region. The indirects reveal much the same distribution 
throughout the interior of the United States as the directs, with per- 
haps a more noticeable restriction of recoveries to major river systems 
including the Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee. 
Banding was started in 1950 at Moosonee on James Bay. The 30 
recoveries from this banding are too few to show a complete pattern of 
distribution. These records, however, indicate the possibility of a 
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