The Newfoundland black ducks do not migrate even into the 
Maritimes until late (fig. 25). The Labrador and Quebec blacks have 
been in Nova Scotia a full month or more before the first of the New- 
foundland birds are taken in November. This recovery pattern may be 
influenced by the fact that the hunting season in the extreme southern 
counties of Nova Scotia does not open until about the middle of Novem- 
ber. The movement into New England is somewhat later. The Newfound- 
land birds apparently arrive at about the same time (early December) 
all along the New England coast. There are some earlier flights to the 
Middle Atlantic area which coincide with the invasion of Nova Scotia 
in November but which by-pass New England. 
There are enough records from bandings before the hunting 
season on the Penobscot River in Maine to show a fair distribution. 
In figure 26, recoveries within a 50-mile radius of the banding sta- 
tion are not included. The movements of these Maine birds seem to be 
more casual than those of the far northern bandings. The first move- 
ments are into southern Maine in early October and into Massachusetts 
the latter part of the month. There is a gradual movement down the 
coast, very likely with some groups moving by numerous short flights, 
and others making somewhat longer flights passing over the others. 
The Maine birds arrive in the Connecticut—-New Jersey area in early 
November and in the Virginia-South Carolina area the latter part of 
November, From our previous discussions the Labrador, Quebec, Maine,‘ 
ani to some extent the Newfoundland, birds all take the same general 
coastal route in their fall migration. 
The limited series of records from the northern Lake Cham- 
plain stations (fig. 27) indicate that some of the population moves 
southward relatively early, being in eastern New York at least by the 
middle of October. The main flight into the southern states probably 
does not get underway until about the middle of November. The first 
birds from Vermont are taken in New Jersey during the same period 
(about the middle of November) as the northern coastal black ducks. 
Apparently most of this November movement makes the flight to New 
Jersey and southward in one hop relatively few birds stopping enroute 
in southern Vermont, New York, and southwestern New England. 
Figure 28 segregates the Lake Scugog early fall (August and 
September) bandings into two groups, the Atlantic Flyway states first 
and beginning with Ohio the Mississippi Flyway states. Quite early 
in the fall the Scugog blacks spread out through southern Ontario and 
southwest through northern Ohio and by the middle of October are in 
eastern Michigan. At this same time there is movement also southeast, 
probably directly across New York and Pennsylvania to the New Jersey- 
Maryland area. This Latter migration is probably of minor proportions 
compared to later flights in November. The latter part of October the 
southwestern migration continues on from western Lake Erie probably 
across northern Indiana to the central Mississippi and Illinois River 
Valleys in Illinois and Missouri. At about this same time or perhaps 
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