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The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No.4. December 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Restoring Beauty to the Human Environment ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

A REQUIEM FOR THE PRAIRIE ▪ Hugh H. Iltis

BIRDING IN MY BACK YARD ▪ Mrs. George A. Anderson

OCCURRENCE OF THE CECROPIA AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN SILK MOTHS IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ James Oberfoell

"The Population Explosion And Ecology", Paul R. Ehrlich

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Revisions Of Two Subgenera Of Andrena: Micrandrena Ashmead And Derandrena, New Subgenus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), David O. Ribble

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

This paper is a monographic revision of the bee subgenera Micrandrena Ashmead and Derandrena, new subgenus, of the genus Andrena in North America. Both subgenera occur in the New World and Micrandrena also occurs in the Old World. Twenty-eight species are treated, of which twelve are new: Andrena (Micrandrena) annectens, ishii, labergei, lamelliterga, lepidii, micheneri, Andrena (Derandrena) arctostaphylae, californiensis, hermosa, murietae, penutiani, viridissima. Thirteen names are placed in synonymy: Andrena semotula Cockerell with candidiformis Viereck and Cockerell; subtilicornis Viereck, nitidicornis Cockerell, chlorogaster nesiotes Timberlake, chlorogaster gavilanica Timberlake, radialis Timberlake, catalinica Cockerell with chlorogaster Viereck; vegana Viereck and Cockerell with illinoiensis …

Biological Studies Of Selected Reaches And Tributaries Of The Colorado River, Nelson Thomas, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration

Publications (WR)

This report fulfills the request of the Colorado River Basin Project, Denver, Colorado, to determine the effects of municipal and industrial wastes on the aquatic life in selected waters of the Colorado River Basin. These studies were conducted with the assistance of personnel from the Colorado River Basin Project.

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No. 3. September, 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: A VOICE FOR CONSERVATION ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1968 ▪ Robert N. Randall

SOME ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS ▪ Laurence R. Jahn

SOME PLANTS OF WESTERN MINNESOTA ▪ O. A. Stevens

MORTALITY OF MIGRATORY BIRDS AT GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA FOLLOWING A MOSQUITO CONTROL OPERATION IN MAY, 1969 ▪ Robert W. Seabloom, Lewis W. Oring and James R. Reilly

NESTING OF THE UPLAND PLOVER ON THE MISSOURI COTEAU ▪ K. F. Higgins, H. F. Duebbert and R. B. Oetting

NOTE

Albino sparrows discovered at Hazen, North Dakota ▪ Larry L. Kruckenberg and …

Two Feather Mite Genera (Analgoidea, Proctophyllodidae) From Birds Of The Families Oxyruncidae And Pipridae (Passeriformes, Tyranni), Warren T. Atyeo, J. Gaud

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

The genus Hemipterodectes Berla is redefined and the type species, H. squalocauda is figured. A new genus, Diproctophyllodes (type species, Proctophyllodes (Alloptes) dielytra Trouessert, 1885) is described; D. exquisita (Berla), 1959 is synomized with D. dielytra; and D. oxyrunci, new species, is described.

Biometrical Study Of Morphology And Development Of The Pennsylvanian Trilobite Ameura Sangamonensis (Meek And Worthen), Roger K. Pabian, J. A. Fagerstrom

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

Biometrical study of morphology and development in a sample of 100 cranidia, 94 pygidia, 26 free cheeks, and 9 complete specimens of the trilobite Ameura sangamonensis (Meek and Worthen) from the Bonner Springs Shale (Pennsylvanian; Missouri Series) in eastern Nebraska indicates that the dominant growth pattern was isometric. Evidence supporting this conclusion consists of rectilinear size relations among eight pairs of cranidial dimensions, three pairs of pygidial dimensions, and three pairs of dimensions of the free cheeks. Qualitative changes in pygidial morphology during development include a progressive decrease in prominence of the border, increasing width of the posterior border relative …

New Genera Related To The Genus Brephosceles Hull, 1934 (Acarina: Proctophyllodidae), Paul C. Peterson, Warren T. Atyeo

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

Five new genera are described; these and the included species are (type species listed first): Dichobrephosceles with Dermaleichus actitidis Canestrini, 1878 (=Brephosceles dolichocaulus Gaud and Mouchet, 1957, new synonymy), D. eroliae, new species (ex: Erolia alpina, England); Homeobrephosceles with Proctophyllodes (A lloptes) discosurus Trouessart, 1886, Brephosceles orthothrix Gaud and Mouchet, 1957; Onychalloptes with Proctophyllodes (Alloptes) microphaeton Trouessart, 1885, Alloptes minutus Trouessart, 1899; Aramolichus with Aramolichus foliatus, new species (ex: Aramus guarauna, Bolivia); Psilobrephosceles with Dermalichus ortygometrae Canestrini, 1878. Species included in the genus Brephosceles (s.s.) are listed; species transferred to Brephosceles are: Proctophyllodes (Pterocolus) fiagellifer discursus Trouessart, 1885; Pterocolus lambda …

The Genera And Species Of The Feather Mite Subfamily Trouessartinae Except Trouessartia (Acarina: Proctophyllodidae), Kenneth R. Orwig

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

A systematic study of the acarine subfamily Trouessartinae (except Trouessartia) of the family Proctophyllodidae is presented. Diagnoses are given for the subfamily, five named genera and four new genera. The named genera and their type species are: Allanalges Trouessart, 1886, A. podagricus (Trouessart), 1886; Calcealges Gaud, 1952, C. cyathoplax Gaud, 1952; Hemicalcealges Gaud and Mouchet, 1957, H. margaropygus (Gaud and Mouchet), 1957; Pseudalges Radford, 1950, Proctophyllodes (Pterocolus) analgoides Trouessart, 1885; and Trouessartia Canestrini, 1899, Dermaleichus corvinus Koch, 1840. New genera and their type species are: Arthrogynalges, A. biovoidatus, new species; Bicentralges, B. orientalis, new species; Neocalcealges, N. inattditus, new species; …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1, No. 2. May, 1969

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: North Dakota's Naturalist-at-Large ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

WETLAND VEGETATION OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert L. Burgess and Dennis T. Disrud

RAPID METHOD OF FILTRATION OF MARSH WATERS ▪ V. A. Adomaitis and J. A. Shoesmith

NOTES

Additional distribution records of the false map turtle and the short-horned lizard in North Dakota ▪ Dennis J. Gemmell

Summer record of the snowy owl in North Dakota ▪ Donald R. Johnson

Long-billed curlews in LaMoure County, North Dakota ▪ Gary L. Krapu

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 1. No.1. March 1968

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Another Milestone ▪ John T. Lokemoen

NESTING OF THE COMMON SNIPE IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud

SCIENCE WRITING — A PROBLEM ▪ Soren O. Kolstoe

INSECTICIDES: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD ▪ Richard D. Urban

NOTES

Why I like the Badlands ▪ Wayne Hecker

White-faced ibis in McIntosh County, North Dakota ▪ Harold F. Duebbert

Cinnamon teal observations in North Dakota ▪ A. T. Klett and John T. Lokemoen

Trumpeter swan in Kidder County, North Dakota ▪ Lewis M. Cowardin and James C. Bartonek

Specimen records of greater scaup ▪ Charles W. Dane and Harold …

The Role Of Adventitious Reinforcement In Operant Discrimination, Alan Kamil, John W. Davenport

Avian Cognition Papers

Rats were trained in 2 S^D-S^Δ discrimination experiments in which the effects of an S^D-postponement contingency during S^Δ and temporal regularity of S^Δ duration were assessed. Experiment I showed that discrimination is markedly facilitated by the presence of an S^D-postponement contingency of either fixed or variable duration. Experiment II showed that variable-duration S^Δ periods in a noncontingent schedule can also greatly enhance formation of an operant discrimination. These effects were attributed to differences in the probability of adventitious reinforcement of S^Δ behavior by S^D events.

Prairie Plants And Their Environment, J. E. Weaver

Papers of John E. Weaver (1884-1956)

When, in 1916, the writer came to the University of Nebraska as a young instructor, he came with a background that well fitted him for studies in the field. His research in the grassland and adjoining forests of southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho had been completed and a fine acquaintance had been made with methods of examining the prairie both above and below ground level (Weaver, 1915, 1917). Similar studies in the area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains were now to be made, and these have resulted in many new investigations that are of both scientific and …

Notes On Spotted Skunks (Genus Spilogale) From Western Mexico, Hugh H. Genoways, J. Knox Jones Jr.

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Specimens of spotted skunks acquired from western Mexico by the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas in the past two decades add substantially to the knowledge of the species occurring in that region. Two specimens of the rare Spilogale pygmaea (one from Sinaloa and one from Oaxaca) are reported for the first time. Two subspecies of pygmy spotted skunk are recognized - S. p. pygmaea Thomas with type locality at Rosario, Sinaloa, and S. p. australis Hall with type locality at Acapulco, Guerrero.

The large spotted skunk, Spilogalepusorius, varies clinally in size form north (larger) to …

Ecological Study Of The Effects Of Strip Mining On The Microbiology Of Streams, Ralph H. Weaver, Harry D. Nash

KWRRI Research Reports

The microflora of Cane Branch of Beaver Creek in McCreary County, Kentucky, which drains an area that was strip-mined between 1955 and 1959, was studied and compared with that of Helton Branch which drains a comparable area where there has been no mining. Differences include: the establishment of Ferrcbacillus ferrooxidans, for which procedures were developed for direct colony isolation from the stream; fewer saprophytic bacteria; more numerous and more diversified filamentous and unicellular fungi; and characteristic differences in algal flora. Representatives of 42 genera of filamentous fungi were identified. Of these, 21 were isolated only from Cane Branch. Representatives of …

Soil Moisture Recharge In Stands Of Quaking Aspen And Gambel Oak In Central Utah, James L. Boynton

Aspen Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Effects Of Reduced Transpiration Upon Soil Moisture Retention In An Aspen Stand Throughout The Growing Season In Northern Utah, Michael Zan

Aspen Bibliography

No abstract provided.