Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lesser Black-backed Gull on Long Island.--OnMarch 1, 1947, the writers, together with Richard Ryan of New York, observed an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus subsp.)standing upon the ice on the Hempstead Reservoir, Hempstead, L.I. Conditions under which the bird was observed were excellent.It was standing in a group of gulls with a Herring Gull immediately beside it and a Greater Black-backed Gull next to the latter.The difference in size between the two Black-backs was strikingly apparent.In addition, the mantle of the Lesser was much browner and a shade lighter than that of the Greater, and the difference in foot coloration was noticeable.The birds were observed and compared for a period of about fifteen minutes with a 33X scope.--P•xLI,n,sB. STm• AND Wr•i, xAx• W. Lurd•Ns, JR., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Barn Owl in Quebec.--OnSeptember 8, 1944, the Quebec Zoological Garden received a live specimen of an adult Barn Owl (Tyto alba pratincola) from Thefiord Mines, Megantic County.As I have not been able to find any published record of this species for the Province of Quebec, and moreover having secured three other unpublished records from reliable observers, I believe the following records warrant publication.The specimen brought to the Quebec Zoo was caught in a barn in the suburb of Thetford Mines, Megantic County, on September 3.The bird was in very weak condition and died a few hours after its arrival at the Zoo after which it was sent to the Quebec Provincial Museum.Reverend J. A. Bergeron of Nicolet Seminary, through personal correspondence, tells me that a Barn Owl was killed in 1936 at St. F•lix-de-Kingsey, Nicolet County.The mounted specimen is preserved in the institution's museum.From L'Assomption, the late Gedeon Boucher reports that in mid-November, 1926, an adult Barn Owl was killed at L'Assomption College.The specimen was mounted and owned by a professor of the institution who died in 1943.Its present owner is not known.The most interesting record comes from Reverend Brother Florian V. Crete, C. S. V. Director of the Museum of the Deaf and Dumb Institute in
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".