Eighty-two direct recoveries from bandings at Sorel, Quebec, 
at the head of Lake St. Peter, conform in distribution a little more 
closely to those from bandings in central New York rather than to 
those from the Lake Champlain bandings. With the Sorel records Mary~ 
land accounts for the largest unit of southward recoveries totaling 
13.4 percent. New Jersey ranks second with 8.5 percent. Inasmuch as 
Sorel is located about 75 miles directly north of Lake Champlain it 
would be expected that the pattern of distribution from the two areas 
might be similar. However, there seems to be a relatively stronger 
affiliation with the Chesapeake Bay area than is true with the Lake 
Champlain bandings. Very likely many of the Sorel black ducks move 
up the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and thence south across New 
York and Pennsylvania. In the Atlantic Coastal states all but one 
record (Florida) occurs from North Carolina north. There are three 
direct recoveries in the Mississippi Valley (3.6 percent) including 
Illinois 2, and Arkansas 1. Recoveries from within 50 miles of the 
point of banding totaled 41 or 50 percent. 
Seventeen indirect recoveries from the 1950 bandings at 
Moosonee, Ontario indicate a more important relationship with the 
Mississippi Valley than is shown from the direct recoveries. Thirteen 
of the recoveries were taken within the United States and of these 5 
and 8 are from Atlantic Flyway and Mississippi Flyway states, 
respectively. 
With few exceptions the direct recoveries from the 1951 
bandings follow the same pattern of time of movement as that portrayed 
in the section "Time of Migration". As would be expected, there is 
some variation particularly in regard to earliest arrival date. Band- 
ings from the Baie Johan Beetz station (totaling 41 recoveries) show 
one black duck as being taken in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts on 
October 26. This record is largely atypical of other recoveries from 
Massachusetts, which show that the first and important take of the 
Quebec banded birds is in early December. However, Massachusetts has 
had a series of split hunting seasons which may be limiting the take 
of earlier recoveries. Further banding will, undoubtedly, clarify 
this point. Perhaps there is some relationship between the Massachu- 
setts October recovery and the recovery of a Baie Johan Beetz black 
duck taken in a banding trap on Long Island, October 30, 
Records from the Tinker Harbor, Labrador station (25 recov- 
eries), show recoveries on Long Island (where there were none pre- 
viously) in November and December which conform to New Jersey records. 
There is also a record from Connecticut for the middle December period. 
The new data from the Grand Codroy station (14 recoveries) 
in Newfoundland show 2 late November records for Massachusetts, a 
middle November record for New Jersey, and an early December record 
for Delaware. There are also recoveries for the Maritime Provinces 
and Long Island which reinforce the previous distribution data. 
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