leaves relatively few records for analysis in both the Atlantic and 
Mississippi flyways. With the 38 indirects, we have 34 percent taken 
locally and & percent in Ontario. As for the Atlantic coastal and 
peers Valley distribution, we find the recoveries about evenly 
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Pennsylvania 
In Pennsylvania, there are records from two stations, one 
at Pymatuning on the Pennsylvania-Ohio line and the other at the 
opposite end of the state near Reading. 
Unfortunately, the number of recoveries (from both fall and 
spring bandings) for the Pymatuning Station are limited (95). Only 15 
recoveries are available from bandings before the hunting season. The 
indirect recoveries are too few (69) to give a well-rounded distribution 
by states. But they give an indication of their relationship to the two 
flyways. Considering first the Atlantic Flyway States, we find 13 per- 
cent of the indirect recoveries from the segment Long Island to Virginia, 
with nearly half from Virginia alone. With the direct recoveries Vir- 
ginia is the northern limit of Atlantic Coast records, so that very 
likely the Pymatuning birds have little influence on populations of the 
Atlantic Flyway from Maryland north. From North Carolina south, approx- 
imately 17 percent of the indirect recoveries are reported with the 
majority (13 percent) in South Carolina. If we include West Virginia, 
the total for the Atlantic Flyway is 32 percent, excluding 26 percent 
taken locally. The majority of the recoveries are from Virginia south. 
The 26 percent of the indirect recoveries from the Mississippi Flyway 
indicate a fairly even distribution between the two flyways. With the 
exception of one direct Florida record there are no Gulf Coast recover- 
ies. In the Mississippi Flyway the southern limit of indirect recover- 
ies is Mississippi and in the Atlantic Flyway, Georgia. 
The Pymatuning blacks are strongly associated with Ontario in 
the north and to a lesser extent with western Quebec. There are no 
recoveries from the New England-Eastern Canada region. 
Both spring and fall bandings have been carried out at the 
Reading Station. Approximately three-fourths of the recoveries (101) 
are from the spring series. Since only & direct recoveries from the 
fall bandings are available of which 6 were taken locally, the indirect 
recoveries from fall bandings (combined with those of the spring band- 
ings) are the only usable records. These indirect recoveries show that 
the Reading station sampled a population from Ontario and western 
Quebec which was bound principally for the Chesapeake marshes of Mary- 
land and Virginia. Grouped by regions the recoveries show & percent 
from New England and the Maritime Provinces; 26 percent from Long Island 
to Virginia (Maryland and Virginia accounting for 15 percent); and North 
and South Carolina have only slightly over 2 percent of the recoveries. 
Twelve percent and 10 percent of all indirect recoveries were from 
Quebee and Ontario respectively and about 30 percent were taken within 
50 miles of the point of banding. 
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