Stejneger and Ridgway on Birds of the Commander Islands
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Abstract
tecent ]'.7eralure. I cdlv seen" on the wav outh from the Aleutians is supposed to have been lmocgorea me[ta (Bp.)Coues.In the same com-e, for nearly a thonsand miles ;' scarcely a day passed but a Petrel with the bell white" was seen this is identified a Free/la grraHarh, not impossibly col rectly, though the identification of mot Petrels oo the wing-is too difficult to make this case satisfactory.Coymbus adams/and C. ac(#cus are both given.a fiUI specie, and as occurring begides C. /orqttalus and C. arctkus.Of J/chl.no twer than fifteen representatives are given, ,ynlhl/borhampheswurmeztesume not included.The mot important point in this conuectinn is made Jn the rediscovery and perfect identiiication of Brachyrhamhus kit/ligzl/ of I}randt.long a doubtful bird to American ornithologists, no specimen being known in this country.Mr. Nelson took one in breeding plumage in the spring of x877 , at Ottoalaska, and afterward anotherxvas secured by Mr. Turner thrther west in the Aleutian chain.We have had the pleagure of handling Mr. Nelson's specimen, among many other of his bird kindly submitted to our inspection.It is certainly distinct from auv Auk known to u when our mouograph of the family was prepared, and we have nddoubtof the accuracy of the identification which has been made.A colored plate will probably be published in another connection.What general criticism we might pas upon this notable paper xvould add notbingto its value.and mav be gathered fi-om what has preceded.Obseurc as it is upon somepoiots.and much asit lacks of detailed infof marion respecting the he,finland egg of sundry notable Arctic birdg, we cannot be too thankful for wimt we are here g'iven of novelty, variety, and interest.We should not omit to add that it is illustrated with four colored plates.executed bv Mr. Ridaway, representing 3Iolacilla ocuhtris, of life size aud equally bandsome. E. C. Cory's Beautiful and Curious Birds.--Therecent appearance of Part VII completes the work.which consiat of twenty plate.xvith accompanying text.Ten of the ptate relate tn as many species of Birds of Paradise: others include the Dodo. the Kiwi (J/eivx artstraitOr), the Lyre Bird, the Ruff, the Spotted Bower Bird, the Black-headed Prover or Crocodile Bird, and the Sacred Ibis.be,ide snch American species a the Great Auk, the Labrador I)uck.aud the Calitbrnia Condor.The plate, in part drawn anti lithograpbed bv the well-kuown bird-artist Smidt, are auperb illustrations of some of the no*t striking tbrms of bird-litE.While not, from the uature of the subject,, of high acientific value, it is a work of art and natural history combined.and a such will be welcomed by lovers of birds and fine books.lti* dedicated to Mr, J. A. Alleu.kV.B.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".