In 1932 and 1933 a vigorous banding program was carried out 
at Wantagh, Long Island, by William Vogt. In the nearby New York 
Zoological Park area (Bronx) banding was conducted intermittently and 
on a limited basis up to the present time. Beginning in the early 
thirties and continuing intermittently to the early forties limited 
bamiings by A. A. Allen and others were under way also in the Ithaca- 
Montezume region of Central New York, but it was not until 1945 that 
the New York Conservation Department, employing technicians, launched 
a state-wide banding program at Lake Alice, Tomhannock Reservoir, 
Perch Lake, Montezuma, Oneida Lake, Oak Orchard, and at the Long Island 
stations. This valuable program has continued to the present time. 
Mason (1947) ably summarized all the New York data in a final Pittman- 
Robertson Report for Project 21-R and Wells (1951) applied the over-all 
banding data to a management plan for New York. 
Although a few miscellaneous bandings were undertaken in 
Massachusetts during the twenties the important stations started opera- 
tion in 1930. Practically all of the banding from 1930 to 1941 was on 
Cape Cod at North Eastham and at Brewster. These important studies 
were carried out by the 0. L. Austin Orhithological Station at North 
Eastham, and by J. J. Storrow and A, Rotch at Brewster. From the winter 
of 1939-40 to the fall of 1944 the Massachusetts Department of Conserva- 
tion carried on a banding program at Newburyport and from 1945 to the 
present the work was continued on Parker River Refuge by Fish and Wild- 
life Service employees. In addition to the coastal bandings the Con- 
servation Department operated during 1943 to 1946 several small inland 
stations across the state as far west as the Connecticut River. 
As a partial fulfilment of Pittman-Robertson Project 4-R, 
Addy (1945), who took part in the Newburyport and inland bandirgs, 
summarized all of the Massachusetts records. Later, Hagar (1946) who 
started the Newburyport program and cooperated in some of the Cape Cod 
work, brought out an analysis of the Austin records. The results of 
Hagar's Cape Cod analysis were applied also in other writings (1945, 
1950, 1951). 
Even before the Massachusetts program, extensive trappings 
were started in Michigan (in 1927) at Munuscong on the Upper Peninsula. 
Sinee then black duck banding has been carried onwithout interruption 
in Michigan at several points, though not continuously at any one 
station. The bulk of the Munuscong records come from the period 1927- 
1935 but limited banding continued into the early forties. At about 
the same time, limited studies were being conducted at Seney but the 
most important period for this station was 1941-48. The Munuscong and 
Seney operations were carried out largely by employees of the Department 
of Conservation and the Fish and Wildlife Service, respectively. 
In the Southern Peninsula a number of stations have been in 
operation at various times since 1928. The bulk of these bandings were 
carried out in the south-central portion of the state in the Battle 
Creek-Kalamazoo-Lansing area beginning in 1931 with the period 1931 to 
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