A Change in the Nesting Habits of the Common House Sparrow (passer Domesticus)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mr. Lawrence visited Pine Lake on the borders of Manitoba and Ontario (actually in Ontario) on July 3.He found the Evening Grosbeak in some numbers but found no nest.Since returning to Winnipeg, Mr. Lawrence tells me that one of the orchardists at the Agricultural College told him that he had actually found the nest of an Evening Grosbeak near the college grounds.Mr. Lawrence promptly went out to see it, but the man was unable to locate it again and supposed that it had been destroyed.My own time, from the middle of June to the beginning of August, was spent at the Manitoba University Biological Station at Indian Bay, Shoal Lake, Lake of the Woods.Indian Bay is in Manitoba, a few miles from the Ontario boundary.I saw no signs of Evening Grosbeaks till July 23, when I heard the note on one of the islands in the bay.To my surprise I found an old bird accompanied by a single young one clamcuring for food.To my great regret I failed to secure either of thcm• as they were almost at once lost to view in the growth and were not seen again till leaving the island and out of range.On the 26th, however, on the mainland and not far from the Biological Station, I again heard the note and this time found a family of three or four being fed by the parents.I shot two of the young, but one was lost in the dense growth.'Later in the day I came across yet another family of young and collected one of these.There can be no doubt that these birds were bred in the immediate vicinity as the youngest of the two I secured could not have been long out of the nest.They may have been reared on one of the islands, though the forest is so dense that they more probably had their homes on the mainland and escaped observation earlier.--W_x•.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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