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Front Matter, Vol. 37 No. 4

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Index [And Table Of Contents] To Volume 37

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Population Dynamics Of The Ferruginous Hawk During A Prey Decline, Neil D. Woffinden, Joseph R. Murphy

Great Basin Naturalist

A nesting population of Ferruginous Hawks (Buteo regalis) at the eastern edge of the Great Basin in west-central Utah was studied for three nesting seasons, 1972–1974, during which time a significant decline in jackrabbit numbers occurred. The total number of hawks and nesting pairs varied throughout the study. In 1972, 16 pairs occupied territories and only 1 pair failed to nest. By 1974, however, only 5 pairs and 2 single birds occupied territories. The number of young fledged ranged from 31 in 1972 to 3 in 1974. The nesting phenology of the Ferruginous Hawk and the reproductive period …

Bionomics Of A Subterranean Gall Midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) From Artemisia Ludoviciana, M. A. S. K. Ranasinghe

Great Basin Naturalist

Bionomics of a gall midge that emerged from nodulelike structures of herbaceous sage, Artemisia ludoviciana, was studied as a part of a larger investigation on possible nitrogen fixation by this plant. Infested plants collected from the field were regularly examined in the laboratory where some of them were grown in a liquid nutrient medium. In the laboratory, adult midges were reared from pupae and induction of infestation was attempted. Apparent nodulation of these plants is caused by the subterranean bud galls of a previously unknown gall midge, Rhopalomyia subhumilis Gagné. Life history of this midge is reported. These midges have …

Geographic Variation In Contopus Sordidulus And C. Virens North Of Mexico, M. Ralph Browning

Great Basin Naturalist

Geographic variation in plumage color between populations of Contopus sordidulus is minor. The differences in color between the races described by Burleigh (1960) is largely the result of postmortem color changes of museum skins. Variation in wing chord and length of tail between samples does not support recognizing additional races of C. sordidulus. Contopus virens is monotypic. The relationships between sordidulus and virens is unclear.

A New Species Of Rhopalomyia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) From Artemisia Ludoviciana Nuttall (Compositae) In Utah, Raymond J. Gagne

Great Basin Naturalist

Rhopalomyia (Diarthronomyia) subhumilis Gagné, a new species of Artemisia ludoviciana Nuttall (Compositae), is described and its taxonomically important structural features illustrated. The new species is compared to its most similar North American congeners.

A New Fossil Sponge From The Ordovician Garden City Limestone Of Southeastern Idaho, J. Keith Rigby, James K. Gilland

Great Basin Naturalist

The new choristid demosponge, Loganiella johnsoni, is described from the upper part of the Lower Ordovician Garden City Formation of southeastern Idaho. The new sponge is a relatively thin walled, low, subcylindrical form. The skeletal net is composed of tracts of curved rodlike spicules, but details have been lost on all specimens because of extensive silicification. Impressions, however, suggest a close relationship to the choristid Dystactospongia Miller, 1889.

The Alpine Butterflies Of Castle Peak, Nevada County, California, Arthur M. Shapiro

Great Basin Naturalist

The west slope of Basin and Castle peaks and the ridge between them displays a wind-generated tree line below 8500 ft, with dry alpine fell-field vegetation above. The butterfly fauna, although depauperate compared to that of the High Sierra farther south, includes some truly boreal elements such as Oeneis ivallda, Plebeius shasta, and Hesperia nevada. These species commonly occur 1500 to 4000 ft higher in the southern Sierra.

Distributional Patterns Of Mammals In Utah, David M. Armstrong

Great Basin Naturalist

Based on a synthesis of recent work on distribution of mammals in Utah, the hierarchy of ecogeographic distributional units proposed by Durrant (1952) is reevaluated by numerical methods. Areographic faunal elements, distinguished on the basis of shapes of distributional ranges in North America, are identified. Relationships are shown between ecogeographic faunal units and areographic faunal elements, and their historical implications are discussed.

Host-Induced Morphological Variations In The Strigeoid Trematode Posthodiplostomum Minimum (Trematoda: Diplostomatidae). Iv. Organs Of Reproduction (Ovary And Testes), Vitelline Gland, And Egg, James R. Palmieri

Great Basin Naturalist

A variety of amphibian, reptilian, avian, and mammalian hosts were used in experimental development of Posthodiplostomum minimum. Results of this study indicate that the organs of reproduction (testes and ovary) as well as the vitelline gland and egg underwent host-induced morphological variations. Due to the lack of host specificity of P. minimum as well as the overlap of reported egg and body sizes of species of Posthodiplostomum, it is apparent that several reported species are not valid.

A New Monotypic Genus Of Chiggers And Four New Species Of Quadraseta From Venezuela (Acari: Trombiculidae), M. L. Goff, J. M. Brennan

Great Basin Naturalist

Carebareia, n. gen., and its type-species, C. johnstoni, n. sp., are described. The genus Quadraseta Brennan, 1970, is redefined and a key to the 11 included species given. Four new species, Quadraseta tachirensis, holotype ex Akodon sp., Q. rotstieri, ex Proechimys guyannensis, Q. mirandae, holotype ex Oryzomys albigularis, and Q. falconensis, ex Sylvilagus floridanus, are described.

A Survey Of Breeding And Migratory Birds Southwest Of Farmington, New Mexico, Duane A. Tolle

Great Basin Naturalist

The relative abundance and habitat affinities of breeding and migratory waterfowl were documented for a 16,556 ha (40,880 acre) area of the Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico. The objective of the 1973–1974 study was to obtain baseline data for use as part of an environmental assessment for coal gasification plants and an associated strip mine proposed for an area not previously described in ornithological journals.

Roadside breeding-bird surveys resulted in the observation of 26 species of birds, of which the horned lark was most abundant. Additional breeding-bird observations were made during afternoon reconnaissance surveys around stock ponds …

A New Name For Galium Scabriusculum (Rubiaceae) Of Utah, Lauramay T. Dempster, Friedrich Ehrendorfer

Great Basin Naturalist

A new name, Galium emeryense, is proposed to substitute for the preempted name G. scabriusculum.

New Synonymy And New Species Of American Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Part Vi, Stephen L. Wood

Great Basin Naturalist

New synonymy of American Scolytidae is proposed as follows: Corthylus Erichson ( = Pseudocorthylus Ferrari), Hylesinus Fabricius ( = Leperisinus Reitter), Monarthrum Kirsch ( = Anchonocerus Eichhoff), Corthylus spinifer Schwarz ( = Metacorthylus affinis Fonseca, Corthylus affinis Fonseca), Cryphalus ruficollis Hopkins ( = Cryphalus amabilis Chamberlin, Cryphalus coloradensis Wood), Gnathotrichus retusus (LeConte) ( = Gnathotrichus alni Blackman), Gnathotrichus sulcatus (LeConte) ( = Gnathotrichus aciculatus Blackman), Hypothenemus eruditus Westwood ( = Hypothenemus germari Eichhoff, Stephanoderes myrmidon Eichhoff, Stephanoderes intersetosus Eggers), Hypothenemus seriatus Eichhoff ( = Stephanoderes nitidulus Hopkins, Stephanoderes subopacicollis Hopkins), Hypothenemus obscurus (Fabricius) ( = Stephanoderes asperulus Eichhoff, Stephanoderes cassiae …

Nectar-Sugar Concentrations And Flower Visitors In The Western Great Basin, Larry J. Gut, Robert A. Schlising, Carol E. Stopher

Great Basin Naturalist

Nectar-sugar concentrations and major flower visitors were determined for 15 species of plants in the Eagle Lake area of Northeastern California. Sugar concentrations for 12 of these are reported for the first time, with means ranging from a low of 10 percent in Mentzelia laevicaulis to a high of 63 percent in Ranunculus uncinatus. The utilization of the various nectar concentrations varied with the type of flower visitor as well as with the habitat and distributional ranges of the plant and/or animal. Hummingbirds and hawkmoths were not observed visiting the flowers they typically visit in other areas (e.g. Aquilegia and …

New Grass Distribution Records For New Mexico And The United States, Stephan L. Hatch

Great Basin Naturalist

New distribution records are given for 13 grasses now found in New Mexico. One of these, Urochloa panicoides Beauv., is a new distribution record for the United States.

Stilt Sandpiper And Hudsonian Godwit In Nevada, C. S. Lawson

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Full Issue, Vol. 37 No. 4

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Contents

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Jean Jacques Vioget The Forgotten Swiss Of Early California, Mary Jean Aerni, Ph.D.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

What makes a hero? Do heroes exist in themselves, or only insofar as they are valuable in the folk mythology of their time? What criteria are used to label one man as an important historical personage, whose name and rank are to be noted and memorize, while a contemporary of greater personal achievement is consigned to oblivion?

Guest Workers As An "Automatic Stabilizer" Of Cyclical Unemployment In Switzerland, W. E. Kuhn

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the early 1970's, in excess of 5 percent of the total population of France, Germany, Britain, and Switzerland were immigrants, The extreme case was Switzerland, where one person in six had come from a foreign country. Between them, the four mentioned countries had nearly 10 million immigrants; this accounts for more than nine-tenths of the West European total of nearly 11 million. This estimate may be on the low side; Feurer indicates that in 1972 some 8 million guest workers lived in Europe who together with their families comprised about 13 million people, contributing some Sfr. 80 billion (about …

Book Review: Zwingli, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

G. R. Potter, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield, has written what is probably the best one-volume biography of the great Swiss humanist and reformer Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) in any language. This achievement was possible because Potter, at the height of a long and distinguished career, immersed himself in the mass of available materials and came up with a product that is scholarly and at the same time eminently readable. The scholarship is reflected in the numerous footnotes on every page as well as in the bibliography. Potter is at home in the libraries and archives of Zurich …

Book Review: The History Of Folsom, New Jersey 1845-1976. Bicentennial Edition., Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Gertrude M. Eckhardt, a member of our society, has produced a handsome volume on a small New Jersey community which her grandfather helped found back in the late 1840s. The community was then called New Germany and consisted of a few doxed German immigrants. They founded their Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1853 and went about earning a living out of the abundant forest lands of their neighborhood. Later in the century a small group of Italian immigrants joined the original group, bringing with them new flavors and new skills. The borough never grew into a big settlement but stayed a …

Notes To Our Members, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

1. The 1977 SAHS Annual Meeting

This year's annual meeting will take place on October 29 at the Faculty Club of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A separate invitation with program will be mailed to our members in October.

Book Review: The United States In Norwegian History, Max Silberschmidt Zurich

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This book is significant for a number of reasons. It is not generally known that after Ireland Norway "is the European nation which has sent the largest percentage of its population to America." The number of emigrants is not impression as such because Norway is, in population today four million, a very small country. "Norwegian America," however, is a factor in Norway's history, of more weight and of greater importance than Swiss-America is Swiss history, for the simple reason that the United States was the land of emigration for Norwegians. Naturally enough, because it is, transatlantically speaking, its direct neighbor!

Librarians, Eugene Wu, Weiying Wan, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, Thomas C. T. Kuo, Key Paik Yang, Eugene De-Benko, Emiko Mashiko Moffitt

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Publications, Eugene Wu, Weiying Wan, Thomas C. T. Kuo, Frank Joseph Shulman, Tao-Tai Hsia

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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An Announcement, Eugene Wu

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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No. 054 Bulletin - Association For Asian Studies, Inc., Committee On East Asian Libraries, Committee On East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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