Winter Record of a Cape May Warbler, Dendroica Tigrina, at Pimisi Bay, Ontario
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent Record of Bachman's Warbler, Verrnivora bachmanii, from Gulf Coast of Mississippi.--During the course of a survey of eastern equine encephalomyelitis at Ship Island, approximately 16 miles offshore near Biloxi, Mississippi, the necessity for the collection of a sample of the bird life occupying the forested part of the island became apparent.On the morning of February 28, 1949, the writer was proceeding along one of the peculiar, tree-covered, low sand ridges which are a typical feature of the terrain of the eastern part of the island.A number of warblers were feeding in the upper level of the scrubby, gnarled live-oaks which occupy the backbone of this ridge.An obscurely marked and unfamiliar warbler attracted attention; the bird was quite wary and refused to allow close approach.After some difficulty, this individual was collected.It was suspected at this time that the bird was a Bachman's Warbler.A skin of this female was prepared by William W. Griffin.Dr. Friedmann of the United States National Museum has examined the skin and identified it as Vermivora bachmanii.As a routine investigative procedure, a thin-film blood smear was made from the bird at the time of collection.This smear, upon subsequent microscopic examination, failed to reveal the presence of blood parasites.The record here reported is unusual in that this species, considered to be fairly common in restricted localities around 1900, has since so declined in numbers that Peterson ('Birds Over America,' Dodd, Mead & Co., 1948: 182) considers it, in recent years, to have "faded like a ghost."The last reported specimen known by the author was taken in 1941 on nearby Deer Island by Thomas D. Burleigh ('The Bird Life of the Gulf Coast Region of Mississippi,' Oc½.Papers Mus.gool., La.State Univ., No. 20: 440, 1944).--G•oRG•W. Sc•m,•, 100 Terrace Drive N. E., Atlanta 5, Georgia.Winter Record of a Cape May Warbler, Dendroica tigrina, at Pimisi Bay, Ontario.--OnNovember 23, 1949, a Cape May Warbler in fall plumage appeared at my feeding station.A full description of the bird together with a drawing was sent to Dr. Josselyn Van Tyne, Dr. Harrison F. Lewis, Mrs. Doris Huestis Speirs, and Mr. James L. Baillie, all of whom confirmed my identification.The bird remained in the locality fo.ur days when it was apparently killed by a Northern Shrike, Lanius borealis.During this time the weather was unusually cold, the lowest tem-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".