in the Southern States. The heaviest concentration of records, both 
direct and indirect (totaling 273), is in the Chesapeake Bay area of 
Maryland and Virginia (25 percent), with lesser numbers in the New 
Jersey and Delaware area (12 percent). Very likely most of the Ches- 
apeake Bay birds arrive by the Susquehanna route and the Delaware- 
New Jersey birds by the Delaware and lower Hudson routes. It seems 
reasonable to suppose that with the inland recoveries in the central 
and western parts of West Virginia, Virginia, and the Carolinas, and 
probably part of the southern coastal recoveries as well that many or 
most of these blacks arrived from the north by various inland routes. 
To a limited extent, these central New York blacks mingle with the New 
England and Mississippi flights but primarily they are affiliated with 
eastern Ontario and western Quebec birds in the north and with the 
Middle and South Atlantic populations to the soyth. 
For the Rochester fall-banded ducks, the distribution of 
recoveries lies somewhere between the Montezuma records and those of 
Lake Scugog in Ontario. Direct recoveries from blacks banded before 
the hunting season total 71, of which 35 were taken locally. Using 
the indirect records (570), we find 20.6 percent taken in the New 
Jersey to Virginia region with only 5./, percent on the New Jersey shore. 
The increase in the South Atlantic States from North Carolina south (8.0 
percent) over that of the central New York stations (5.1) indicates the 
increased importance of western New York with the south Atlantic region. 
Very likely many of the blacks from western New York State reach these 
southern areas by interior routes to the west and south in the same 
‘manner as the southern Ontario black ducks. As was the case with the 
Ontario blacks, more Rochester-banded birds were recovered in South 
Carolina than in any other southeastern coastal state. The increase 
in southeastern recoveries is accompanied by a greater number of recov- 
eries from the Mississippi Valley States: 9.6 percent as against 2.5 
percent for the central stations. Generally speaking Ontario data from 
the South Atlantic States show twice the percentage of recoveries and 
from the Mississippi Flyway, two and a half times that recorded for 
the Rochester bandings. 
Limited spring bandings (85 recoveries) show strong ties with 
the Middle and South Atlantic Coastal States from New Jersey south and 
with Ontario and western Quebec to the north. Winter bandings (103 
recoveries) show somewhat the same distribution as fall and spring 
bandings except that recoveries outside New York to the south and west 
are at reduced percentages. The majority of the recoveries comes from 
New York State and the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. 
The most western New York stations, Niagara and Oak Orchard 
near the east end of Lake Erie, have too few records (total 87 recover- 
ies) to give a proper ratio of recoveries between States. However, 
they are sufficient to give an indication that in this area we approach 
the point where equal numbers of recoveries are involved in the two 
flyways. The excessive local take of direct recoveries, 24 out of 36, 
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