York and western Pennsylvania where the division between the Atlantic 
and Mississippi Flyways is about equal. For black ducks leaving south- 
eastern Ontario for the southern wintering grounds, direct recoveries 
also are about evenly divided between the Mississippi Valley to the 
West and the Atlantic region to the south and east. 
We now have a knowledge of the direction of movement south- 
ward from certain regions or localities. To complete the story for 
management purposes, a knowledge of the importance of the various 
migrant populations is necessary. At the present time there are relat- 
ively few data available which will aid in evaluating sizes of popula- 
tions. Projects that will contribute data toward this end, would in- 
clude (1) extensive breeding-ground surveys to determine population 
sizes, (2) increased banding, particularly on the northern breeding 
ground, and (3) extensive bandings on the wintering grounds. As for 
the breeding-ground program, studies are still in their infancy and it 
may take several years to obtain the required population data if it is 
at all possible to do so. 
Southern Bandings 
The data available from bandings on the southern wintering 
ground leave much to be desired, but do add a little more information 
on the movements of populations wintering in the Middle and South 
Atlantic States. 
New Jersey 
The reader will recall that flights coming out of the north- 
east showed recoveries largely restricted to coastal habitat in New 
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and in reduced numbers on to 
Florida. In this same region these blacks are joined by others coming 
out of the north and northwest. It would be expected therefore, that 
winter bandings on the eastern shore of New Jersey might show a greater 
proportion of recoveries the following year from the New England-Maritime 
Province area and that with similar bandings on coastal Virginia this 
proportion would change perhaps striking a balance in numbers between 
the northeastern and the northwestern group of recoveries. To check 
this assumption, we will examine the southern data. Unfortunately, for 
the Tuckahoe bandings on the east coast of New Jersey, there are prac- 
tically no recoveries away from the immediate vicinity of the station. 
Even with the 21 indirect recoveries 18, or 85 percent are from the 
banding area. The remaining three taken outside the 50-mile radius are 
from Massachusetts, Ontario, and New Jersey. 
Virginia 
The next coastal station to the south is Chincoteague, Vir- 
ginia. Below it, at the North Carolina line, is Back Bay, Virginia. 
Although Chincoteague records indicate a greater influence from the 
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