The Hovey Lake records (30 indirect) show a closer association 
with the Michigan-to-Minnesota region with 40 percent of the recoveries 
as compared to Ontario with 7 percent. With so few records scattered 
over such a wide area it would be inadvisable to place too much reliance 
on these ratios. | 
Illinois 
Extensive banding operations have been undertaken in Illinois 
at Orland Park near Lake Michigan and at the Chautauqua Refuge on the 
Tllinois River. Of considerably lesser magnitude are records from 
Savannah in the northwestern part of the state and from Grafton in the 
southwestern. 
The Orland Park operations have produced a total of 957 re- 
coveries most of which are from bandings during the hunting season. 
One hundred and forty-six direct recoveries are available from bandings 
before the shooting season and all directs total 439. The indirect 
recoveries total 518. Of the direet recoveries from bandings prior to 
the hunting season 50 percent were taken locally (62 percent for all 
directs) and of the indirect recoveries 30 percent were recovered 
locally. Actually 72 percent of the direct recoveries and 47 percent 
of the indirect recoveries were taken within Illinois. 
Direct movement from Orland Park (from birds banded before 
the hunting season) assumes an expanding cone-shaped pattern spreading 
southward with most of the recoveries in the lower Mississippi Valley 
and a scattering to the southeast in the Carolinas (fig. 18). Using 
directs from hunting season bandings (293) also, there is shown a rel- 
atively heavy concentration of records along the Illinois River indicat- 
ing the Illinois Valley as an important route followed by the Orland 
Park birds bound for the lower Mississippi River area. 
The indirect records show much the same pattern southward 
am in addition show a heavy concentration of reeoveries to the north 
ani northwest (fig. 19). The Wisconsin-Minnesota-Manitoba area accounts 
for 16 percent of the recoveries and the Michigan-Ontario region to the 
northeast, 13 percent. Ontario accounts for 5 percent, and the eastern 
states from Virginia to New York, 2 percent. Just what some of these 
records represent is problematic, particularly the southeastern Ontario 
recoveries. The Orland Park area is obviously a crossing point for some 
blacks bound for the middle eastern states from the west and for birds 
bound for the Mississippi Valley from the east. Data from this station 
as well as from the eastern bandings indicate the movement into the 
Middle Atlantic area from the mid-west as relatively minor, whereas the 
movement from Ontario and northern New York to the southwest is prob- 
ably of greater magnitude. 
Perhaps a breakdown of indirect recoveries by divisions 
(fig. 20) would be elarifying: 
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