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Record W7153680020

Swarth on the Birds of the Skeena River Region, B C

2024· article· W7153680020 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
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Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · 2024
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAvian ecology and behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFaunaSubspeciesWoodpeckerLagopusCliffFoothills
DOInot available

Abstract

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jA•U•y Swarth on the Birds of the Skeena River Region, B. C.--This is • report • on the results of another of the field explorations conducted by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California under the patronage of Miss Annie M. Alexander during the summer of 1921.The region covered lies on the east of the Coast Range, with a flora and fauna related to the interior country and similar in a general way to that of the Upper Stikine River district, already reported upon by the same author.Mr. Swarth found the fauna of the valleys to be Canadian while a well deõned IIudsonian belt was present on the mountains and the treeless p•ks showed Alpine-Arctic characteristics.We note in the portion of the report relating to the birds that the Rock Ptarmigan of the region proved to be quite distinct from Lagopus r. dixoni of the Aleutian Islands and probably represents a new sub-species.Material obtained seems to show that Dryobates p. glacialis Grinnell, of Alaska, is identical with the Rocky Mountain Downy Woodpecker D. p. homorus which however should be known by the earlier name leucurus tIartlaub.The specimens of Pigeon Hawks obtained show pretty clearly that the three forms, columbarius, suckleyi and richardsoni are all subspecies of a single species, Falco columbarius.Mr. Swarth also considers that Parus hudsonius columbianus Rhoads is a valid form, while he gives some interesting data 5n the molt of the Pipit.The report is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the fauna of the north-west.--W.S. Sclater'a •Systema Avium Ethiopicarum.' •--The first part of this important work is before us, covering the families from the Struthionidae through the Picidae, essentially in the order adopted by A. II.Evans in the bird volume of the 'Cambridge Natural History.'The plan of treatment follows that of the A. O. U. and B. O. U. 'Check-Lists' in practically all details, a binomial group name appearing at the head of each series of subspecies, the usual generic headings, with references and type localities, etc.In addition there are foot notes referring to certain changes from current nomenclature and references to revisions of groups.The nomenclature follows the International Code as nearly as possible, but, as the author truly says, there is a certain amount of ambiguity in the application of some of the rules which leaves the correct names for certain.species still in doubt.Common names are given to all recognized forms but some of them are so cumbersome that they are little better than Latin trinomials and will 1 Birds and Mammals of the Skeena River Region of Northern British Columbia.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.954
Threshold uncertainty score0.091

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.159 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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