have been at Ashland, Akron, and Celina with the first accounting 
for most of the records. Carl R. Warren conducted most of these 
studies and summarized the data in 1945. 
Warren (1950) likewise summarized the results of black duck 
bandings in Pennsylvania, carried out at Reading and Pymatuning by the 
Pennsylvania Game Commission. These bandings were largely concentrated 
in the periods of 1938-1940 and 1947-1950, and although limited in 
scope, are of considerable value. 
Since 1947 new stations have been started in the Maritime 
Provinces, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Labrador by the Northeastern 
Wildlife Station and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Although the data 
from these stations are still rather limited in volume they have made 
perhaps the most significant contributions to the story of black duck 
migration in the East. Actually, banding of black ducks has been done 
on a limited scale in the Maritime Provinces by various wildlife 
officers, wardens, and others since the 1920ts. John Tingley, at the 
time a New Brunswick warden, caught several hundred young birds by hand 
over a period of years and banded them. Likewise, during the past few 
years the breeding-ground survey crew with the aid of a Labrador re- 
triever have caught and banded several hundred flightless juveniles. 
The principal operation in Quebec has been at Baie Johan Beetz 
located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River just north of Anti- 
costi Island. However, in the period 1931-36 a limited number of black 
ducks were banded on the island off L'Islet, about 60 miles east of 
Quebec City. Also in 1950, new bandings were started by the Quebec 
Department of Game and Fisheries, at Sorel, located on the St. Lawrence 
River at Lake St. Peter. 
The Labrador station is located at Tinker Harbor on Hamilton 
River Inlet. It is understood that this valuable station is to be 
abandoned by the Canadian Wildlife Service due to the excessive expense 
involved in operation. The Newfoundland Station is located on the 
Grand Codroy River at the southwest tip of the Island. Most of the 
banding in New Brunswick has been in the vicinity of Sackville on the 
Tantramar marshes and in recent years the Canadian Wildlife Service has 
operated several bait traps there during August and September. 
Wright (1948) who was responsible for setting up the first 
stations in Newfoundland, Labrador and eastern Quebec, reported on the 
results of the first year of banding. At this moment, he has also in 
manuscript form a summary dealing with a full five years of records 
from these new stations. 
Unfortunately, the scope of banding in the southern states 
as well as in certain other northern ones has been too limited to give 
enough data for analysis. With many of these states a relatively 
large volume of records is necessary because the majority of the recov- 
eries are taken from around the trapping area and the remaining records 
are frequently scattered widely over the United States and Canada. 
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