APPENDIX 
Additional Data from 1951 Bandings 
The report summarizes banding recovery data available through 
January 1951. Sinee the preparation of the manuscript the author has 
had an opportunity to tabulate and summarize the records received 
during 1951 and to the spring of 1952. 
These additional records total 2,037 recoveries from shooting; 
among them are 278 from bandings in Canada. Bandings from 26 states 
and & Provinees are included with those from Quebee, Maine, Massachusetts, 
Connecticut, New York, Wiseonsin, Michigan and Illinois, accounting for 
more than half the recoveries. From bandings in the United States, there 
are 736 direct recoveries of which 533 were banded 5 days or more before 
the hunting season. 
A detailed breakdown by percentage of recovery for various 
states and regions will not be given here. It will suffice to say that 
the patterns of movement shown conform closely to those presented in 
the first section of this report and strongly reinforce the statements 
and conclusions made. 
Most of the new records concern stations for which there were 
already fairly voluminous data available. There are, however, a few 
instances in which new bandinglocalities are involved. 
There is a series of 39 direct recoveries from bandings during 
1951 at Castalia, Erie County, Ohio. These records, though relatively 
small in number, show much the same pattern as those from stations in 
southern Michigan, coastal Massachusetts, and others in the northern 
states where the bulk of the recoveries are taken in the vicinity of 
the banding station and the remainder exhibit only a limited movement 
southward. Among all direct reeoveries, 85 percent were taken within 
50 miles of the banding station, and only 3 or 4 records were taken 
from south of Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania 
account for one record each. Eighty percent of the recoveries from 
bandings prior to the hunting season (30 in all) were taken locally. 
These records add another bit of confirming evidence to the 
already yoluminous data in the report and they support the proposition 
that, in certain areas of the northern states where some birds tend to 
linger late in the season, or when they establish winter territories 
in areas of heavy shooting, trapping in the fall at these points does 
not sample, in a representative manner, all populations concerned. 
There is a strong tendency for the more sedentary population to be 
trapped to the exclusion of the transient or migratory population. 
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