Bibliographic record
Abstract
Songs of Field and Savannah Sparrows.Editor of 'The Auk': Mr. Mousley ('Auk,' xliv, 1927, p. 523) includes the Field Sparrow (Sp/zella pusilla pusilla) in his list of the birds of Harley, Quebec, on the strength of a list of species observed at Sherbrooke by Mr. R. G. Price, printed in 'The Ottawa Naturalist,' XXIV, 1910, 55-57, supplemented by a letter from Mr. Price.In a locality where the Indigo Bunting is found one need not be surprised to find the Field Sparrow also, but a careful consideration of the evidence given of its actual occurrence in the Harley-Sherbrooke region is not convincing.Mr. Price's rendering of the song of his 'Field Sparrows' as "sit-sit-sit and s-i-n-g f-r-e-e," resembling as it does so closely Dr. Dwight's tsip-tsip-tsip • s•'-•-•-s'r-r-r in Chapman's Handbook, strikes me as a particularly happy rendering of the Savannah Sparrow's song, while I cannot see in it the slightest suggestion of the Field Sparrow's.It is significant, too, that Mr. Price says that the song "is usually delivered from the top of a fence post or some low obiect"-very characteristic of the Savannah Sparrow but not of the Field Sparrow, which usually chooses a higher perch.Still more significant is the fact that though the Savannah Sparrow is "fairly common" at Harley, it is entirely omitted from Mr. Price's Sherbrooke list.Of course the Savannah Sparrow is much more a field Sparrow than Spizella pusilla, and it is not surprising that Mr. Price, who includes the "Jenny Wren" in his list, should know it by that name.Even so good an observer as Thoreau was deceived by a mere name when he called the Pileated Woodpecker of the Maine woods the Red-headed Woodpecker, adding the scientific name Picus erythrocephalus.Mr. Mousley may not be the first author to accept Mr. Price's 'Field Sparrows' at their face value, and, as it is always hard to overtake a false record, he may not be the last; so that we can only hope that he will himself soon find an undoubted Field Sparrow at Harley and thus establish the presence there of a species that pretty surely does not as yet deserve a place in his list.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".