Bibliographic record
Abstract
only two published records are available from the St. Lawrence River section of the state.The first of these dates back to 1865 when, according to Eaton (Birds of New York, 1:211, 1910), D. G. Elliot took about 40 specimens.The second, supported by a single specimen, likewise refers to the last century, about 1898 (Hasbrouck, Auk, 61: 552, 1944).Because of this scarcity of records it seems that the following should be recorded.On December 19, 1943, State Game Protector Marvin R. Nichols, Massena, New York, was hunting with a friend on Allison Island in the St. Lawrence River not far from the village of Waddington.During the day his friend shot at dose range a drake Barrow's golden-eye in full adult plumage, mutilating the body of the bird beyond repair.However, Nichols mounted the undamaged head and neck.The writer saw the spedmen in the spring of 1946 and was kindly given permission to borrow it.All the important characters used in identifying the adult male Barrow's goldeneye were clearly apparent.The abruptly rising forehead, the frontal protuberance, the rounded crown, the large, white fnlly-formed erescent before the eye, and the purple gloss of the head stood out in sharp contrast when compared with a specimen of an adult drake American golden-eye (Bucephala clangula americana).Because of the low population of Barrow's golden-eye in northeastern North America and its tendency to occur more often in coastal and tidal waters, it is not to be expected that the species would appear with any degree of frequency in the New York section of the upper St. Lawrence River.On the other hand, by reason of the very limited number of competent observers in the region, it seems questionable whether this golden-eye is as extremely rare as published records indicate.--H.L. KvTz, University of Maine, Orono.Surf scorer records from Georllla.--In the spring of 1947, Mr. Isaac F. Arnow, retired ornithologist and taxidermist of St. Mary's, Georgia, donated more than 400 bird and mammal skins to the University of Georgia Museum, and among these skins were three scoters, all collected by Mr. Arnow.The writer identified the birds as surf scoters (Melanitta perspicillata).This identification has been confirmed by Dr. Alexander Wetmore who examined the specimens.The three birds are labelled as follows: "No.652, Collector: I. F.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".