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Record W4404187501 · doi:10.55431/jco.2024.37.60-64

A new hypothesis on the identity of Gosse’s Blue Partridge (<em>Zenaida</em>? <em>plumbea</em>) from Jamaica

2024· article· en· W4404187501 on OpenAlexaff
Catherine Lévy, Susan E. Koenig

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Caribbean Ornithology · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican history and culture studies
Canadian institutionsWindsor Clinical Research
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdentity (music)BiologyArt

Abstract

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Abstract Historical natural history records can provide a valuable look into the past environment, but mistakes and misnomers are easily perpetuated. In these cases, it can be hard to distinguish genuine records of now-extinct birds from misnamed or misidentified extant species. The mystery of Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, 1849 in Jamaica is one such example, where a species named and claimed from a nearly century-old illustration was assumed to be the Blue Partridge known by locals. Did this species truly exist? Was it a misattributed Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)? Or was it something else entirely? Here, we explore the mystery of Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, comparing it to an illustration of a columbid found among the papers of Anthony Robinson (d. 1768), whose drawings and manuscripts were loaned by the Institute of Jamaica to the British Museum in 1928. These materials were returned to the Institute in 1992, where they are now located in the Natural History Museum of Jamaica. Robinson’s papers are a gold mine of interest for animal and plant information from the 18th century and they led us to new speculations about Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, 1849. Keywords Anthony Robinson, introduced birds, Jamaica, Philip Henry Gosse, Zenaida macroura, Zenaida?plumbea Resumen Una nueva hipótesis sobre la identidad de la Perdiz Azul de Gosse (Zenaida? plumbea) de Jamaica • Los registros históricos de historia natural pueden proporcionar una valiosa visión del entorno del pasado, pero es fácil que se perpetúen errores y denominaciones incorrectas. En estos casos, puede ser difícil distinguir entre los registros auténticos de aves hoy extintas y los de especies existentes mal identificadas o mal nombradas. El misterio de Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, 1849 en Jamaica es un uno de esos ejemplos, donde una especie fue nombrada y reivindicada a partir de una ilustración de casi un siglo de antigüedad, asumiéndose que se trataba de la Perdiz Azul, conocida por los locales. ¿Realmente existió esta especie? ¿Fue una equivocación y en realidad era Zenaida macroura? ¿O era algo completamente diferente? Aquí, exploramos el misterio de Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, comparándola con una ilustración de un colúmbido hallada entre los documentos de Anthony Robinson (fallecido en 1768), cuyos dibujos y manuscritos fueron prestados por el Instituto de Jamaica al Museo Británico en 1928. Estos materiales fueron devueltos al Instituto en 1992, y actualmente se encuentran en el Museo de Historia Natural de Jamaica. Los documentos de Robinson constituyen una valiosa fuente de información sobre animales y plantas del siglo XVIII y nos han llevado a nuevas especulaciones sobre Zenaida? plumbea Gosse, 1849. Palabras clave Anthony Robinson, aves introducidas, Jamaica, Philip Henry Gosse, Zenaida macroura,Zenaida? plumbea Résumé Une nouvelle hypothèse sur l’identité de la Tourterelle plombée (Zenaida ? plumbea) de Gosse, en Jamaïque • Les données naturalistes anciennes peuvent fournir un aperçu précieux de l’environnement passé, mais les erreurs et les appellations erronées y perdurent facilement. Il peut alors être difficile de distinguer les véritables mentions d’oiseaux aujourd’hui disparus de celles d’espèces encore présentes mais mal nommées ou mal identifiées. Le mystère de Zenaida ? plumbea, Gosse, 1849, en Jamaïque, en est un exemple, dans lequel une espèce nommée et revendiquée d’après une illustration datant de près d’un siècle était supposée être la Tourterelle plombée connue par les habitants de la région. Cette espèce a-t-elle vraiment existé ? S’agit-il d’une Tourterelle triste (Zenaida macroura) mal déterminée ? Ou s’agit-il d’une espèce tout à fait différente ? Nous explorons ici le mystère de Zenaida ? plumbea, Gosse, en la comparant à une illustration d’un columbidé trouvée dans les documents d’Anthony Robinson (décédé en 1768) dont les dessins et manuscrits ont été prêtés par l’Institute of Jamaica au British Museum en 1928. Ces documents ont été restitués à l’Institut en 1992 et se trouvent aujourd’hui au Musée d’histoire naturelle de la Jamaïque. Les documents de Robinson représentent une mine d’informations sur les animaux et les plantes du XVIIIe siècle et ils nous ont permis de formuler de nouvelles hypothèses sur Zenaida ? plumbea, Gosse, 1849. Mots clés Anthony Robinson, Jamaïque, oiseaux introduits, Philip Henry Gosse, Zenaida macroura, Zenaida? plumbea

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.070

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.269
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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