Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent Literature.t Jan. the whole with many photographs from nature and a number of the groups themselves."The book is divided into eight parts, as follows: Part I, 'Travels about tIome,' in which are treated The ways of Jays, A morning with Meadowlarks, Bird-nesting with Burroughs, A Nighthawk incident.Part II, 'The Bird~life of two Atlantic Coast Islands'--Cardiner's Island and Cobb's Island.Part III, 'Florida Bird-life' --Pelican Island, the Florida Great Blue Heron and the Water Turkey, the American Egret, Cuthbert Rookery.Part IV, 'Bahama Bir'd-life'--the Flamingo, the Egg Birds, the Booby and the Man-o'-War Bird.Part V, 'The Story of Three Western Bird Groups' --the Prairie Hen, a Golden Eagle's nest, Cactus Desert Bird-life.Part VI, 'Bird Studies in California' --the Coastal Mountains at Piru, the coast at Monterey, the Farallones, the San Joaquin Valley at Los Banos, Lower Klamath Lake, the Sierras.Part, VII, 'Bird-life in Western Canada'--the Prairies, the Plains, the Mountains, the White Pelican.Part VIII, 'Impressions of English Bird-life,' and indexes.An 'Introduction' of eight pages reveals to the reader some of the methods and devises by which the photographic results shown in the present volume were obtained.The foregoing •vil[ sufficiently explain the scope, purpose, and general character of this exceptionally interesting and, in many respects, remarkable book, where a wcalth of photographic illustrations so effectively supplements the text.It remains therefore only to say that the story of these varied experiences is most modestly yet effectively and pleasingly told, without resort to anything beyond simple and direct statement of events, more varied and opportune than has probably ever before fallen to the lot of an ornithologist.There were, of course, mishaps and unpleasant experiences, but they leave slight trace in the author's narrative, so full of new, first-hand information about birds whose home-life was previously, in many cases, by no means well known.The book is appropriately dedicated to Hermort C. Bumpus, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, and "to those members of the Museum whose co6peration made possible the work on which it is based."--J.A. A. Preble on the Birds of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region.•--This admirable work of nearly 600 pages and nmnerous illustrations is based mainly on the field work of Mr. Preble during two expeditions, the first in 1901, the second in 1903 '04.The publication of the report having been unavoidably delayed till the present year (1908), it represents the state of knowledge of the region down to the spring of 1908.It includes • A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region.By Edward A. Preble, Assistant, Biological Survey.Prepared under the direction of Dr. C.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.008 |
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".