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Nebraska Bird Review (July-December 1948) 16(2b), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents of Volume 16

Number 1

Birds of the Stapleton Area of Nebraska Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Glandon .............1

Nesting of the Double-crested Cormorant in Nebraska Mrs. Carl N. Collister.............22

Christmas Bird Censuses Adrian C. Fax.............27

Observations on Same Eastern Montana Birds Wm. Youngworth …………38

General Notes …………51

Minutes of the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting …………57

Report of the Forty-fourth Annual Field Day …………63

Announcements …………65

News and Comment …………67

Book Review …………69

Obituary …………70

Nebraska Bird Review (July-December 1948) 16(2a), Whole Issue.

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Migration Observers Wanted...........Chandler S. Robbins 72

Recent Changes in Nomenclature of Nebraska Birds...R. Allyn Moser 74

The Omaha Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...........75

Nebraska Birds in the G. D. Swezey Cabinet of Natural History at Doane College....William F. Rapp, Jr. 76

The 1948 Spring Season in the Crete Area............Rosetta A. Grefe 80

N.O.U. Co-operative Bird Migration and Occurrence List for the First Half of 1948............83

Obituary............91

General Notes............92

Announcements............96

Book Reviews............82, 98

A Contribution To The Study Of Certain Avian Strigeids (Trematoda), Asa C. Chandler, Robert L. Rausch

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

The examination of more than 200 species of birds by Rausch during the past few years, has disclosed a number of interesting strigeids, some of which are considered in the present paper. Three species appear to be undescribed and two of these are of particular interest in that they occur in passeriform birds, a group rarely parasitized by strigeids. In addition to the descriptions of the new species, remarks concerning Hysteromorpha triloba (Rudolphi, 1819) are included.

Synoptic Revision Of The United States Scarab Beetles Of The Subfamily Dynastinae, No. 4: Tribes Oryctini (Part), Dynastini, And Phileurini, Lawrence W. Saylor

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

This paper is the fourth in the series of my United States dynastine scarab beetle studies and completes the specific listings and notes. The fifth, and last, part will include a complete classification of the tribes and genera, from the Nearctic standpoint.

Genus Aphonus LeConte

Tribe DYNASTINI -- Genus Dynastes Kirby, Genus Megasoma Kirb

Tribe PHILEURINI -- Genus Archopbileurus Kolbe, Genus Phileurus Latreille

American And British Atomic Energy Reports, O. Willard Holloway

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

This publication lists all of the reports on atomic energy which have been released by the Office of Technical Services. Included are reports of both the United States and Great Britain. These reports are available to interested parties in either photostat
or microfilm form. Reports should be ordered from OTS by PB number and the order should be accompanied by a check or money order made payable to the Treasurer of the United States.

For convenience this publication is arranged in four parts:

Part 1. List of American Atomic Energy Reports.

Part 2. Numerical Index to American Atomic Energy Reports …

A New Sciurid Of Blancan Age From Kansas And Nebraska, Claude W. Hibbard

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The collecting of vetebrate fossils from deposits of Blancan age in Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas during the past twelve years has revealed many interesting forms. Some species have been found to have wide geographic distribution. A large sciurid related to the woodchucks has been recognized from both Kansas and Nebraska and is here described as a new genus and species.

Nebraska Bird Review (January-June 1948) 16(1), Whole Issue.

Nebraska Bird Review

CONTENTS

Birds of the Stapleton Area of Nebraska
Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Glandon...............1

Nesting of the Double-crested Cormorant in Nebraska
Mrs. Carl N. Collister..............22

Christmas Bird Censuses..............Adrian C. Fox 27

Observations on some Eastern Montana Birds....Wm. Youngworth 38

General Notes..............51

Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting..............57

Report of the Forty-Fourth Annual Field Day ..............63

Announcements ..............65

News and Comment ..............67

Book Review.............. 69

Obituary..............70

Life Histories Of North American Nuthatches, Wrens, Thrashers And Their Allies: Order Passeriformes, Arthur Cleveland Bent

Papers in Ornithology

An attempt has been made to give as full a life history as possible of the best-known subspecies of each species and to avoid duplication by writing briefly of the others and giving only the characters of the subspecies, its range, and any -habits peculiar to it. In many cases certain habits, probably common to the species as a whole, have been recorded for only one subspecies. Such habits are mentioned under the subspecies on which the observations were made. The distribution gives the range of the species as a whole, with only rough outlines of the ranges of the …

Microbiology Of Soil, Nathan Wakefield

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The discovery that certain microorganisms isolated from soil could produce antibiotics when grown in pure cultures in the lab­ oratory has served to focus attention as never before on the sub­ject of soil microbiology. The main emphasis, however, is on prob­lems entirely unrelated to the processes which go on in the soil. The fact that an organism was isolated from soil and then used in medicine, fermentations, or some such way, does not bring such work in the actual field of soil microbiology. Practically all except the more fastidious animal and plant pathogens can be found in the soil at …

A Preliminary Study Of A Physical Basis Of Bird Navigation, Henry L. Yeagley

Papers in Ornithology

The bird navigation theory as presented implies an organ or organs in the bird's physiology which are sensitive to the effect of its motion through the vertical component of the earth's magnetic field and to the effort exerted to overcome the coriolis force, due to the earth's rotation. Both these influences involve a set of lines which together form a navigational gridwork. By correlating its instantaneous land speed with the two above effects, a bird can fly to its home which is a unique point in this gridwork, or to related companion points existing in the gridwork at positions other …

The Digenetic Trematodes Of Marine Fishes Of Tortugas, Florida, Harold W. Manter

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

189 species of digenetic trematodes are reported from teleost fishes of the region of Tortugas, Florida. Among these are recognized: 44 new species, 9 new genera, 44 new combinations, 14 new synonyms, and 51 new host records. Several genera and species are considered synonyms of those previously named.

Of 237 species (approximately 2,039 specimens) of teleost fishes examined, 182 species or 76.8% were parasitized by adult, digenetic trematodes. Most of the host species harbored from one to three species of trematodes; 79 (or 43.4% of the 182) had a single species of trematode. Two fishes, however, were each susceptible to …

Nebraska Bird Review (July-December 1947) 15(2), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Bird Departure Dates .........Wilson Tout 1

Recent Changes in Nomenclature and Subspecific Status of Nebraska Birds .........F.W. Haecker 5

"Drumming" in the Chimney Swift .........W.E. Eigsti 9

Banding Mourning Doves in Eastern Nebraska.........Wilhelmina and Leroy Gulotta 12

Hawk Populations in Nebraska......... John H. Wampole 20

Winter Birds of the Fontenelle Forest......... Charles A. Stewart 24

Notes on the Nesting of the Acadian and Alder Flycatchers......... Frank H. Shoemaker ......... 31

N.O.U. Cooperative Bird Migration and Occurrence List for First Half of 1947......... 36

General Notes......... 40

Nebraska Bird Club News......... Adrian C. Fox......... 55

Announcements......... 60

News and Comment......... …

Riboflavin Production By Molds, George L. Peltier, Raymond Borchers

Papers in Microbiology

Very little information is at hand regarding the ability of molds to synthesize riboflavin. Few citations pertaining directly to riboflavin production by true molds are available.2 Pontovich (1943) found as much as 2 mg riboflavin per g of Aspergillus flavus mycelium. Tanner et at. (1945) determined the quantity of riboflavin in the submerged fermentation media of Penicillium chrysogenum. The highest value found was 1. 36 mg per ml. The primary purpose of this study was to screen several hundred isolates, recently obtained from soil, crop residues, and composts, for their ability to produce riboflavin on a wheat bran substrate.

Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The national wildlife refuge at Chincoteague, Virginia, is one of the newest in a chain of sanctuaries placed along the flight lanes of the waterfowl. Coming down from the north the principal links of the chain are Parker River, Montezuma, Susquehanna, Brigantine, and Bombay Hook. Then from Chincoteague the links run south, through Back Bay and Pea Island, Mattamuskeet and Cape Romain. Chincoteague, like other waterfowl refuges, is needed because birds migrate, and because in so doing they expose themselves to great dangers.

The migration of birds is one of the ancient spectacles of earth, and one of the most …

Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge, Rachel Carson

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is New England's most important contribution to the national effort to save the waterfowl of North America. Many million Americans have a direct stake in the success of this effort: the 2,000,00o waterfowl hunters, the millions who find recreation and esthetic pleasure in observing and photographing the birds, and all those, whom there is no way of counting, who understand the value of preserving wildlife as part of America's natural heritage.

During the several generations in which the United States has been converted from a land preeminently wild and unsettled into an industrial and …

Bulletin 388, Nebraska Tractor Tests 1920–1947, 1948

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Bulletin 388, Nebraska Tractor Tests 1920–1947, 1948

The Goss Lemming Mouse, Synaptomys Cooperi Gossii (Goues), In Nebraska, Edson Fichter, Merle F. Hansen

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

In the course of studies on the cestode parasites of microtine rodents by one of the authors (Hansen), specimens of mice were sent to the United State National Museum where they were identified by Dr. David H. Johnson. Two of these microtines proved to be Synaptomys cooperi gossii (Coues). These specimens of Synaptomys (U.S.N.M. Nos. 282343 and 282344), collected at Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, on September 16, 1946 (male) and November 20, 1946 (female), respectively, are the first ones to be identified from Nebraska.

Farm Fishponds, Verne E. Davison

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

An important part of soil and moisture conservation is making the best use of every acre on the farm. Where a suitable site for a farm pond exists, no better use can be made of such land than to develop it for the production of fish for the farm family. The recreation the pond affords adds much to the pleasure of rural life.

Thousands of farms have good pond sites. Properly developed and managed ponds may provide both food and pleasure to more than a million farm people.

This bulletin tells how to have good ponds. It explains how to …

Riboflavin Production By Molds, George L. Peltier, Raymond Borchers

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Very little information is at hand regarding the ability of molds to synthesize riboflavin. Few citations pertaining directly to riboflavin production by true

molds are available. Pontovich (1943) found as much as 2 mg riboflavin per g

of Aspergillus flavus mycelium. Tanner et at. (1945) determined the quantity of

riboflavin in the submerged fermentation media of Penicillium chrysogenum.

The highest value found was 1. 36 mg per ml. The primary purpose of this study

was to screen several hundred isolates, recently obtained from soil, crop residues,

and composts, for their ability to produce riboflavin on a wheat bran substrate.

The Geologic History Of The Bison In The Great Plains (A Preliminary Report), C. Bertrand Schultz, W. D. Frankforter

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

THE GEOLOGIC history of the bison in North America is a subject which has received little attention to date. Osteological rather than geological problems have been the main concern of most writers who have so far published. If the geologic history of the bison is to be learned, it will be necessary to devote more time and effort in the field in determining the age of the deposits in which various specimens have been discovered and in making more extensive collections from deposits of known age. Unfortunately the majority of the type specimens have been surface finds and little attempt …

Pollination Cycles And Pollen Dispersal In Relation To Grass Improvement, Melvin D. Jones, L. C. Newell

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The plant breeder is initially concerned with gaining a knowledge of the breeding behavior of his plant materials in order that improvement may be undertaken effectively. It is important to know the different characteristic pollination habits of these plants. To develop and apply techniques applicable to the improvement of a given grass crop, it is desirable to know the time of day and the number of days that the grass sheds pollen. The effects of temperature, humidity, light, and wind on pollination must be considered. Once superiority of germplasm is obtained, the most important consideration is the maintenance of this …

Pig Typhus (Salmonellosis Suis), L. Van Es

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Salmonellosis suis or pig typhus, also designated as pig typhoid, infectious necrotic enteritis, or "necro," is an infectious disease among young pigs. It constitutes a major factor in the mortality of juvenile swine, and as such must be regarded as a more or less perennial hazard in swine production. Infectious necrotic enteritis caused by Salmonella suipestifer is the subject of the present publication.

59th Annual Report Of The Agricultural Experiment Station June 1946, W.W. Burr

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Contents

Cover picture-Potato Field and Scotts Bluff. Photograph provided through courtesy of C.B.&Q. Railroad Co .

Soils Research................... 5-14

Field Crops Research ................... 15-38

Horticultural Crops................... 39-46

Plant Diseases................... 47-51

Chemical Studies With Plant Materials................... 52-54

Insects and Rodents................... 55-64

Feeding Hogs, Cattle and. Sheep ................... 65-73

Dairy Production and Manufacture ................... 74-78

Poultry Nutrition and Management................... 79-82

Animal Diseases ................... 83-86

Agricultural Engineering ................... 87-90

Studies in Rural Economics ................... 91-95

Home Economics ................... 96-97

Valentine Substation ................... 98-99

Box Butte Experiment Farm................... 99-100

Scotts Bluff Substation................... 101-104

North Platte Substation ................... 105-110

Experiment Station Publications During 1945 ................... …

The Relation Between Metabolism And Potassium Cyanide Inhibition In Pelomyxa Carolinensis, Tatsuru Eugene Kimura

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

1. Introductlon ( Respiratory System)

2. Introduction ( Protozoan Experiments)

3. Materials and Method

a . Experimental Organism

b. Barcroft-Warburg Micro-respirometer

c. Manometric Calibration

4 . Results

a . The Effect ot Temperature

b. The Effect of Potassium Cyanlde

5 . Discussion

6. Summary

7. Bibliography

The thesis investigates the following problems: (1) whether or not there is any correlation between temperature change and respiratory quotient, (2) whether or not respiratory inhibition by cyanides is influenced by temperature, and (3) whether or not the cytochrome-cytochrome oxidase type of respiratory system is concerned chiefly with carbohydrate metabolism in Pelomyxa carolinensis.

Morphology Of A New Species Of Bat Cestode, Hymenolepis Roudabushi, And A Note On Hymenolepis Christensoni Macy, Ralph W. Macy, Robert L. Rausch

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Examination of material of a species of Hymenolepis collected by Rausch from several species of bats taken near Marysville, Ohio, revealed that it was new. A series of specimens of the same species was collected in 1942 at Ames, Iowa, by Dr. Robert Roudabush. The new species, Hymenolepis roudabushi, is described.

Influence Of Food Plants On Fecundity, Larval Development And Abundance Of The Tuber Flea Beetle In Nebraska, Roscoe E. Hill

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Laboratory and field tests were conducted to determine the effects of different food plants on fecundity, adult longevity and larval development of the tuber flea beetle, Epitrix tuberis Gentner. All food plants tested were those upon which the overwintered beetles commonly feed in the spring following emergence from hibernation.

Synoptic Revision Of The United States Scarab Beetles Of The Subfamily Dynastinae, No. 3: Tribe Oryctini (Part), Lawrence Saylor

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

This paper is the third in the series covering the United States dynastine scarab beetles and includes the four genera differentiated in the following key:

1. Apex clypeus acute and definitely bidentate, the teeth often worn and nearly obsolete. Apex clypeus acute, either sharply or bluntly so, but never bidentate. Mandibles definitely tridentate externally, the basal tooth often worn and barely visible; thorax not more than two-thirds the length of the elytra; color rufous to rufocastaneous or rufopiceous = Ligyrus Burmeister

2. Mandibles bidentate externally (caution: examine from below and laterally to avoid counting the lacinia teeth as third teeth …

Research Bulletin 143, Influence Of Food Plants On Fecundity, Larval Development And Abundance Of The Tuber Flea Beetle In Nebraska, 1946

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 143, Influence of Food Plants on Fecundity, Larval Development and Abundance of the Tuber Flea Beetle in Nebraska, 1946

Research Bulletin 147, Pig Typhus - Salmonellosis Suis, 1946

University of Nebraska Historical Extension: Bulletin

Research Bulletin 147, Pig Typhus - Salmonellosis Suis, 1946

Nebraska Bird Review (January-June 1946) 14(1), Whole Issue.

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Genus Junco in Nebraska, By R. Allyn Moser ...................... 1

Cooperation in Upland Game Bird Research,
By Levi L. Mohler ........................................ 7

Notes on Birds of Great Britain, by Ralph Velich ........................ 10

Minutes of the Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting ................................ 13

Report of the Forty-Second Annual Field Day ............................ 18

General Notes ................................................................. 19

Book Review ................................................................... 23

Announcements ...................................................................... 24

Obituaries ..................................................... 27