
Active work is still in progress on the clapper rail under the 
auspices of the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic 
Development. A major study of this species covering several years 
as a project of the Georgia Game and Fish Commission was published: 
(Oney, John "Final Report on Clapper Rail Survey and Investigation 
Study." come Game and Fish Commission, Federal Aid Proj. Ga. WOR 
195). <A study o e ecological distribution and nesting success 
of clapper rails in California was published during the year: (Zucca, 
Je Je "A Study of the California Clapper Rail." Wasmann Journal of 
Bacto Toh: 12(2):135-153, 1954). <A summary of band recoveries 
ica a rather pronounced migration of northern Atlantic popula- 
tions of the clapper rail to southern Atlantic coastal marshes to 
winter: (Stewart, Re. E. "Migratory Movement of the Northern Clapper 
Rail." Bird-Banding, vol, 25(1):1-5, 1954). <A total of 132) clapper 
rails had been banded by the end of 1953 and 57 of these had been 
recovered. Of the 760 soras banded up to that time, 8 had been re- 
covered, and only 1 Virginia rail had been recovered from the 537 
banded. 
