th we saw three martins in the spring to one in the 
; in central Illinois the ratio was even, and in the 
th we saw one bird in the spring to two in the fall. 
suspect that martin populations, and swallow pop- 
ions in general, have a very spotty distribution, 
ticularly in the fall, with large numbers of birds 
ertain areas and few elsewhere. Such a distribu- 
| makes it difficult to obtain counts which truly 
ect the population of a region. 
A purple martin banded at Ohio, Illinois, on July 
1925, was caught at Sipe Springs in central Texas 
ut November 23, 1929 (Cooke 1937). This is 
only published band recovery which indicates 
it direction from Illinois, and is also interesting as 
mgevity record. Even older was a martin banded 
tolumbus, Missouri, on June 18, 1932, and found 
1 almost 6 years later in Hillview, Illinois, May 
1938 (Cooke 1942). 
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