Recent Specimens from Southern New York and New Jersey Affecting Aou Check-list Status
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reeent Specimens from Southern New York and New Jersey Affecting A.O.U.Cheek-list Status.--Thedistributional status of the following species as given in the A.O.U.Check-list (1957) is substantially modified by specimens and data hcrc reported.Unless otherwise stated the specimens mentioned wcrc collected by the writer and arc on deposit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Measurements arc in millimeters.Erolia ferruginea.Curlew Sandpiper.A first-year bird (not sexed) was taken œrom a flock of Dunlins (Erolia alpina) at Jamaica Bay, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, on October 12, 1956.The A.O.U.Cheek-list reports the Curlew Sandpiper as merely "casual" in North America.Actually, the species is of regular occurrence on Long Island in small numbers, at least in spring (Bull, 1958: 20).From 1947 to 1956 (when dredging destroyed the site) one to three individuals could bc sccn annually between May 10 and May $0 at the Pennsylvania Avenue mudflats on Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York (scc Scdwitz, 1950).Autumn records have bccn few, perhaps because in fall plumage Curlew Sandpipers arc overlooked among the numerous Dunlins; however, in recent years there have been several late summer or autumn reports of one or two individuals from Jamaica Bay, in or near New York City.The bird hcrc recorded (identity confirmed by Dr. K. C. Parkcs) is the only recently collected specimen from the area, but among the older examples is one taken on the remarkable date of December.29, 1925 (Cruickshank, 1942: 202).Thala•seus sandvicensi• acufiavid•.Sandwich (Cabot's) Tern.The first New York State specimen of this species was collected on June 30, 1957 at Mccox Bay, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, from a flock of Common and Koseatc Terns (Sterna hitundo and S. dougallii).The A.O.U.Check-list gives the range of this form as breeding north to North Carolina, wandcrlng to Virginia, with one accidental record from Ontario, Canada.Two old specimens from Massachusetts (not mentioned in the A.O.U.Cheek-list) arc recorded by Griscom and Snyder (1954: 156).There wcrc also sight reports from Massachusetts and New Jersey after the September, 1954 hurricanes (scc Griscom et al., 1955: 9, 16).The specimen under consideration was secured the day after Hurricane Audrey passed up the Mississippi Valley, with its peripheral winds buffering Long Island at speeds up to õ0 mph.A female in non-breeding plumage with molting primaries, the Long Island bird measured: ovary 18 x 6, wing (flat, outer primaries not fully grown) 255.5, tail 114, tarsus 22.5, culmcn 50.5The bill was black with the terminal 6 min.silvery-yellow; legs and fcct olive-black; iridcs black.Compared with T. •. •andvicensi• of Europe, it showed the limited white edgings on the primaries characteristic of the American ac•fiavid•.The measurements also placed it in that form.The identification was confirmed by Dr. K. C. Murphy.Pipilo erythrophthalmus arcticus.Kufous-sidcd (Spotted) Towhce.--Animmature female of the western rnaculatus group of towhccs (formerly considered a separate spccics) was collected for the first time in New York on February 16, 1957, at •oncs Beach, Nassau County, Long Island.It had bccn present since at least December 28, 1956, when it was discovered and identified as a Spotted Towhcc by Kobcrt H. Grant.No record from the eastern states of arcticus, or of any member of the spotted-backed races, is mentioned by the A.O.U.Cheek-list, except for one specimen listed as P. e. rnontanus, from Mctuchcn, Middlesex County, New •crscy, based on a female taken December 24, 1952 (Baird, 1957).For reasons stated below, that °S
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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 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.015 |
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".