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Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (December 1975) 43(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Spring Waterfowl Migration in Lancaster County - 1970.................. 70

Merlin Nest in Nebraska ..................78

A Groove-billed Ani Seen Again in Nebraska.................. 79

A Brown Creeper's Nest in Nebraska.................. 80

First Pleistocene Record of the Golden Eagle from the Central Great Plains.................. 84

Notes.................. 84

Index of Volume XXX XIII ..................85

Sciurus Richmondi, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Sciurus richmondi Nelson, 1898
Richmond's Squirrel

Sciurus richmondi Nelson, 1898:146. Type locality Escondido River, 50 mi. above Bluefields, Nicaragua (Nelson, 1899:100).

Context and Content
Order Rodentia, Family Sciuridae. The genus Sciurus is widely distributed in both the Old and New worlds. S. richmondi is a monotypic species closely related to S. granatensis; both species are members of the subgenus Guerlinguetus.

Dipodomys Phillipsii, J. Knox Jones Jr.

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Dipodomys phillipsii Gray, 1841
Southern Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat

Dipodomys phillipsii Gray, 1841:522. Type locality "near Real del Monte," Hidalgo.
Dipodomys ornutus Merriam, 1894:110. Type locality Berriozi-bal, Zacatecas.
Dipodomys perotensis Merriam, 1894:111. Type locality Perote, Veracruz.

Sturnira Thomasi, J. Knox Jones Jr., Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Sturnira thomasi de la Torre and Schwartz, 1966
Guadeloupe Yellow-shouldered Bat

Sturnira thomasi de la Torre and Schwartz, 1%6:299. Type locality Sofaia, 1,200 ft., island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles.

Context and Content: Order Chiroptera, Family Phyllostomatidae, Subfamily Stenoderminae. The genus Sturnira contains about 10 species and is confined to the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World. Sturnira thomasi is a monotypic species.

Additional Records Of The Stenodermine Bat, Sturnina Thomasi, From The Lesser Antillean Island Of Guadeloupe, Hugh H. Genoways, J. Knox Jones

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Sturnira thomusi was named and described by de la Torre and Schwartz (Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 79: 297-303, 1966) on the basis of a single male from the island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, that was captured by Richard Thomas in 1963. The holotype of S. thomasi has until now been the only known specimen of this unique species. In late July of 1974, a field party from the Museum of Texas Tech University (supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, GB-41105) collected bats on Guadeloupe and took four additional individuals of S. thomasi, all …

The March Ice Storm: Disaster And Opportunity, Paul Matthiae, Philip B. Whitford

Field Station Bulletins

The ice storm of March 1-5,1976, of perhaps once in a century severity, hit the UWM Field Station with ice loads up to 2 in. thick. The crowns of many trees, especially older beech and maple, were literally torn asunder by the sheer weight. In the swamp forest most tamaracks had their tops snapped off. The beech-maple forest of course was one of the Nature Conservancy's first major projects in Wisconsin, one of the jewels of the Scientific Areas System, and fortunately one of the most thoroughly studied tracts in the state. We had excellent pre-storm data on the forest …

Soil Monolith Construction: A Practical Teaching Experience For Field And Lab, Nicholas P. Kobriger, James B. Levenson

Field Station Bulletins

Soil formation, structures and differences are difficult to visualize or understand without being able to experience them. Most of us are familiar with the soil profiles (soil sequum) on display in many Soil Conservation Service or County Extension Service offices. Whether an ecologist, engineer, or home gardener, we have all examined the intricate structures, features and horizon development. The objective of this paper is to describe a technique to construct such soil monoliths for classroom use with minimal expense.

Mineral Cycling And Productivity In An Upland Deciduous Forest: Soils And Methods, Nicholas P. Kobriger

Field Station Bulletins

This study was designed to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the upland forest and of the productivity of Wisconsin forest communities. Data were collected to quantify the biological cycling of nutrients, nutrient availability and water availability, the principal factors supporting production of organic matter in forest ecosystems (Duvineaud and Denaeyer-De Smet, 1970). Using the data from this study we can then examine the stability of the upland deciduous forest and its response to the environment, for example recovery from a catastrophic event such as the March ice storm. Once this ecosystem's structure and functioning are known, we can …

Landscape Patterns And Forest Island Interactions, Forest Sterns, James B. Levenson, Paul Matthiae

Field Station Bulletins

On March 18, the Field Station welcomed faculty and graduate students involved in the Landscape Pattern Analysis project. This study has both theoretical and practical objectives. The theoretical problems are concerned with island biogeography as outlined by Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson were discussed in the Spring 1975 Field Station Bulletin. These questions relate principally to how island size and distance from neighboring islands affect species composition and extinction, i.e., affect the diversity of island communities. These theoretical questions are being approached in a series of studies undertaken jointly by scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rutgers University, …

Cold Air Drainage: A Field Experiment, James Levenson, Paul Matthiae

Field Station Bulletins

The following descriptions of a 24-hour cycle of the flows of radiant energy in November 1974 were written as follow-up assignments to a class exercise measuring these energy flows at the Field Station (Meteorology 511 - Dynamic Meteorology I: Radiation). All the flows of short-wave (or solar) radiation (wave length less than 3 micrometers) and long-wave radiation (wave lengths 3 to 50 micrometers) were measured, and their interrelations calculated.

Venezuelan Macronyssidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata), Robert C. Saunders

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Systematics Of Neotropical Hirstionyssus Mites With Special Emphasis With Special Emphasis On Venezuela (Acarina: Mesostigmata), C. Selby Herrin, Conrad E. Yunker

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

This paper presents the results of a systematic study of mites of the genus Hirstionyssus Fonseca collected from mammals, primarily in Venezuela, but including one collection each from Colombia, Nicaragua, and British Honduras. Previously described species from Panamá and Brazil are reviewed and new distributional records are listed. The known Neotropical fauna of Hirstionyssus mites includes 15 species, 7 of which are described here as new: H. proctolatus n. sp.; H. brachysternum n. sp.; H. dorsolatus n. sp.; H. rhipidomys n. sp.; H, venezuelensis n. sp.; H. brevicalcar n. sp.; and H. parvisoma n. sp. The previously unknown male and …

Spinturnicid Mites Of Venezuela (Acarina: Spinturnicidae), C. Selby Herrin, Vernon J. Tipton

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

The results of an extensive survey of spinturnicid mites of bats from Venezuela are presented in this paper. Approximately 30,000 bats were collected from a wide variety of life zones and localities. A representative sample was searched for ectoparasites. There are 3 genera of the family Spinturnicidae in Venezuela: Cameronieta, Periglischrus, and Spinturnix. Three previously described species of Cameronieta were found in the Venezuelan collection. Of the 7 species of Spinturnix previously described from the New World, 4 are reported from Venezuela. The genus Periglischrus constitutes by far the most significant segment of the Venezuelan collection. It is represented by …

Front Matter, Vol. 20 No. 2

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 20 No. 2

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Distribution And Abundance Of The Black-Billed Magpie (Pica Pica) In North America, Carl E. Bock, Larry W. Lepthien

Great Basin Naturalist

Analysis of Audubon Society Christmas bird count data and certain environmental variables shows the degree to which the Black-billed Magpie is a bird of cool arid regions in North America. The abundance and distribution of this species appear to be limited by two major climatic barriers: increasing summer temperatures in the Southwest and increasing summer humidity and precipitation on the central plains.

Mallophaga Of Venezuelan Mammals, K. C. Emerson, Roger D. Price

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

Seven species of Mallophaga have been previously reported from Venezuelan mammals. In this paper an additional 28 species and subspecies, 7 of which are new, are reported from Venezuela; and 21 other species which have not been previously reported from Venezuela are included because their hosts are found there.

Front Matter, Vol. 20 No. 3

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 20 No. 3

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (September 1975) 43(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1975 (Fiftieth) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ... 46

Young Mountain Plover Seen in Kimball County ... 54

Notes ... 57

A Sutton's Warbler? ... 62

Scott's Oriole Reported ... 64

1975 Fall Field Day ... 66

A Junco Is a Junco Is a Junco ... 67

A New Species Of Eptesicus From Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Hugh H. Genoways, Robert J. Baker

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

In the course of field studies on bats of the Antillean region, three specimens of the genus Eptesicus were obtained on the island of Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles. The nearest known populations of this genus are on Puerto Rico 500 kilometers to the west (E. fuscus wetmorei), on the northern coast of South America 850 kilometers to the southwest (E. fuscus miradorensis), and on Tobago 550 kilometers to the south (E. brasiliensis melanopterus). Study of the specimens from Guadeloupe reveals that they represent a distinct species that is most closely related to Eptesicus …

A List Of Venezuela Chiggers, Particularly Of Small Mammalian Hosts (Acarina: Trombiculidae), James M. Brennan, Jack T. Reed

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

Detailed or summarized records of 136 species in 38 genera with a key to the latter are provided. Of 86 described forms, 49 are new for Venezuela; the remaining undescribed taxa are coded for purposes of this report. A classified host-parasite list is appended.

The Subfamily Leeuwenhoekinae In The Neotropics (Acarina: Trombiculidae), Jack T. Reed, James M. Brennan

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

Neotropical representatives of the subfamily Leeuwenhoekinae are reviewed. The genus Odontacarus comprises 66 percent of the chiggers examined, and 82 percent of this genus were identified as O. tubercularis (Brennan). The following genera are redescribed: Albeckia Veracammen-Grandjean and Watkins, Leeuwenhoekia Oudemans, Odontacarus Ewing, Sasacarus Brennan and Jones, Wagenaaria Brennan, and Whartonia Ewing. New taxa are: Odontacarus comosus comosus, O. c. novemsetus, O. dienteslargus, O. pugnosus, O. schoenesetosus, O. sunnianae, O. tiptoni, O. tuberculohirsutus, O. vanderhammeni, O. vergrandi, Sasacarus furmani panamensis, and Whartonia angulascuta. Odontacarus fieldi Brennan and Jones, 1961, and O. cayolargoensis Brennan, 1959, are synonymized under O. tubercularis Brennan, …

Front Matter, Vol. 20 No. 1

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Vol. 20 No. 1

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

No abstract provided.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (June 1975) 43(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

The Seventy-fourth Annual Meeting ........................................ 22

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Breeding in Lancaster County .................................... 23

1974 (Seventeenth) Fall Occurrence Report .................................................... 24

Some Waterfowl Breeding Records for Lancaster County ............................. 40

Anhinga Seen in Nebraska Again ........................................... 41

A Monk Parakeet in the Kearney Area ...................................... 42

Book Reviews ........................................................ 42

Notes .................................................43

Collections Of Recent Mammals In North America, Jerry R. Choate, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Mammalogy is the only systematic discipline that has previously undertaken periodic (that is, more than one) surveys of its holdings in North American collections. The first such survey (reported on by Howell, 1923) pertained to mammals in collections as of April of 1922. The report of the second survey (Doutt et al., 1945) summarized collections of mammals in North America as of 1943. The report of the third survey (Anderson et al., 1963) pertained to specimens of mammals in North American collections as of 1962. At that time, it was assumed that to prepare an updated report on North American …

A New Subspecies Of Geomys Bursarius (Mammalia: Geomyidae) From Texas And New Mexico, Robert J. Baker, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

As part of a study of the systematics and ecology of pocket gophers occurring on the high plains of Texas and eastern New Mexico, numerous populations of the plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius, were examined karyotypically. Four chromosomal races were described from this area by Baker et al. (1973). Additional studies lead us to believe that two of these races represent an undescribed subspecies of the plains pocket gopher. In addition to karyological evidence, specimens of this subspecies are morphologically distinct from those of all contiguous populations of Geomys bursarius major, the race to which they previously were assigned. …

Editors' Note To Biological Investigations In The Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas., Hugh H. Genoways, Robert J. Baker

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

The Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which is located in TransPecos Texas between Carlsbad, New Mexico, and EI Paso, Texas, is one of the newest national parks being formed by the Congress in 1967. The Guadalupe Mountains and the associated Chihuahuan Desert included in the park represent a unique biological area in which a fragile biological equilibrium exists between the fauna and flora of the Chihuahuan Desert of the lowlands and the Rocky Mountains of the high elevations. The preservation of this area will depend upon sound management decisions. This volume is the result of a symposium held at The Museum …

Mammals Of The Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, Hugh H. Genoways, Robert J. Baker, John E. Cornely

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Our survey began in late May 1973 and continued through August 1975. The objectives of our study, which was supported by the National Park Service, were to survey the mammals occurring in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, and to correlate their distribution with major plant associations. This inventory of the natural resources of the park is preliminary to the development of any serious management program. Therefore, we present the following accounts to serve as baseline data for future mammalian work in the park and development of the master plan for the park.