area, flights coming out of central New York and Ontario are of greater 
importance than those traversing coastal New England. 
To the west, bandings in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. give 
a limited series of 41 indirect recoveries including 21 taken locally. 
The remaining 20 are divided as follows: 
Northeastern - 5 percent (all Long Island) 
Central - 17 percent 
Northwestern ~ 17 percent 
As for the northeastern category, the only shooting records 
are from Long Island. They may not actually represent a northeastern 
population. Very little reliance is placed in these records as far as 
portraying actual distribution of the population. The banding has 
been very limited and scattered over a long period of years. 
North Carolina 
Most of the banding in North Carolina has been in the vicinity 
of the Mattamuskeet Refuge near New Holland. This location, though not 
on the extreme outer shores, is nevertheless in the zone of coastal tide- 
water. From this region we would expect a moderate reliance on flights 
from the northeast, but with the heaviest proportion coming out of the 
central and northwestern division. The 82 indirect recoveries are pri- 
marily from winter and spring bandings and fortunately only 12, or 22 
percent, were taken locally. Breakdown by divisions shows: 
Northeastern - 16 percent (Long Island, 0) 
Cent ral - 13 percent 
Northwestern - 18 percent 
This 1s a somewhat higher ratio for the northeastern than 
anticipated. As explained before, we know relatively little concerning 
the size of the various movements and the above may be more nearly right 
than we think. North Carolinats mapped recoveries support this. They 
show a funnel-like distribution (fig. 16). The western edge of the 
funnel is in the Lake Scugog area of southeastern Ontario and the east- 
ern edge is in the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland. Southward the 
western edge passes through central New York and Pennsylvania. Then 
the neck quickly narrows, and is restricted largely to New Jersey and 
the outer shores of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. There is a scarcity 
of recoveries from the Chesapeake Bay area. New Jersey accounts for 
twice as many recoveries (18 percent) as any other state. This distrib- 
ution of the recoveries indicates a much closer tie with northeastern 
populations than with populations to the west. 
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