Bibliographic record
Abstract
194• J 6erirat Vots 143 at seeing itH On being told that they were seeing the southernmost Starling, they looked at it with more than ordinary interest!This statement was made on the spur of the moment, but all subsequent efforts to trace any previous occurrence have proved unsuccessful.The writer has communicated with such authorities as Messrs. R. J. Longstreet, Daytona Beach; Louis Stimson, Miami; and Donald J. Nicholson, Orlando.None of them have any record of the Starling south of the limits outlined above.Mr. Longstreet edits the Florida Naturalist and would be, perhaps, in the best position to know of any southern records.So it appears that the last area in the East and South has now been penetrated by this species.Whether the extreme cold of early February was a factor remains to be seen, but on all subsequent trips (there have now been nine of them) no sign of the bird has been noted.Presumably it is the forerunner of others to come.--An•xa•D•RSPR•T, JR., Okeechobee, Florida.Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Flortda.--OnOctober 27, 1946, I saw two Scissortailed Flycatchers sitting on a wire near the heart of Clewiston, Florida.They remained resting while I had ample time to remove my binoculars from the case and observe the birds at close range.I have lived in this area since early in 1941 but this is the first time I have seen this species in Florida.--WmnAm•E. Dmn•v, Clewiston, Florida.Sooty Shearwater in western North Clarolina.--Whilevacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the writer stopped at the store of Mrs. W. C. Irwin of Sparta, Alleghany County, and was attracted to a mounted specimen of Pu•nus griseus.This shearwater was blown into the town of Twin Oaks in August, 1939, after a storm on the coast.It is about 300 miles from here to the Atlantic coast.--W.H. B•n, 4311 W. Knox Rd., Co•ege Park, Maryland.The American E•Iret in New Brunswick.--Thereare records of at least nine of these birds (Casmerodius albus egretta) which have wandered north to New Brunswick during the last seventy-five years.These have appeared not only in late summer, as the numerous published reports that they wander north after the breeding season would lead us to expect, but have been recorded from early April until November.James W. Banks, in manuscript notes discovered at the New Brunswick Museum, stated that a pair were seen many times during the summer of 1870 in the vicinity of Gagetown, Queens County, New Brunswick.Ruthyen Deane in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club (1879), quoted C. J. Maynard, who told him about examining an immature specimen shot at White Head Island, Grand Manan, Novembcr 3, 1878.Dr. Philip Cox, for many years Professor of Natural History at the University of New Brunswick, described one of these birds to the writer which he had seen many years ago at Maugerville, Sunbury County.This is our most northerly record.Ora W. Knight (1897) stated that G. A. Boardman had one in his collection which was taken at Grand Manan but no date is given.There is a specimen without data in the Boardman Collection at the New Brunswick Museum to-day which may be the one referred to by Knight.Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr. (1939) gave two new records for the American Egret in the Grand Manan Archipelago.One was found dead on Hay Island, April 5, 1936, and another was collected at North Head, Grand Manan, April 12, 1930.The latter is now in Allan Moses's collection.The most recent record for Grand Manan is one which, according to a press report, was seen at Ingall's Head in June, 1945, by Mrs. C. W. Green.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.002 |
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".