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Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1933) 1(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

The Present Status of the Whooping Crane. By Myron H. Swenk ................................. 111

General Notes .................................... 130

Editorial Page ........................................... 136

The 1933 Migration Season ................................ 137

Here and There with the N. O. U. Members: ............... 141

A Brief Synopsis of the Birds of Nebraska. II. Grebes (Colymbidae) .............................. 142

Index .................................................. 152

Advertisement .......................................... 159

Past N. O. U. Officers Other than President ................ 160

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1933) 1(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Local Bird-Banding. By Susie Callaway ... 59

General Notes ... 61

Editorial Page ... 65

The 1933 Migration Season ... 66

Here and There with the A.O.U. Members ... 79

A Brief Synopsis of the Birds of Nebraska. 1. Loons (Gaviidae) ... 87

Minutes of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting ... 90

Report on the Thirty-first Annual Field Day ... 104

Membership Roll of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union ... 105

Addresses of Retiring Presidents of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union ... 108

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1933) 1(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

A Comparison of the Bird Faunas of the Pampas of Argentina and the Plains of Nebraska. By Lawrence Bruner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

General Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 29

Editorial Page........................................... 36

The 1933 Migration Season ................................ 38

Here and There with the N. O. U. …

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (January 1933) 1(1),. Copyright 1933, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. Used By Permission.

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Observations on the Number of Birds to the Square Mile in Custer County. By J. M. Bates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3

General Notes . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5

Editorial Page..................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …

The Tapeworms Of The Rhinoceroses, A Study Based On Material From The Belgian Congo, Horace W. Stunkard

Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials

During the course of my study on the parasitic worms collected by the Lang-Chapin expedition of the American Museum to the Belgian Congo, I have had the good fortune to examine abundant material of Plagiotaenia gigantea (Peters). This interesting species, the first reported from the rhinoceros, has been confused with other cestodes from rhinoceros hosts, has been assigned to no less than three different genera in addition to the genus Taenia, to which it was originally referred, and has been the source of much discussion and difference of opinion during the past seventy years. A review of the literature …

Trematodes From The Rat, Horace Wesley Stunkard, Chilson B. Haviland

Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials

Occasional examinations of rats for animal parasites have been carried on for over a hundred years. Later, knowledge of the importance of rats as reservoirs of infection and as agents in the transfer of parasitic diseases has led to the regular and careful examination of large numbers in various parts of the world. Among the more recent publications dealing with the parasites of rats may be mentioned Shipley (1908), Moll (1917), Chandler (1921), Balfour (1922), Baylis (1922), Stevenson (1922), Hegner (1923), and Lavier (1924). Notwithstanding the many investigations, only a single trematode parasite has previously been discovered and concerning it …

On A New Species Of Otter From Nebraska, Myron Harmon Swenk

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

In 1908 I referred our Nebraska otters to L. c. sonora (Rhoads), basing this conclusion on the mounted specimen in the University Museum, because of its large size and pallor, that being the only Nebraska specimen in any collection in the state at that time, and, so far as known to me, the only Nebraska specimen extant except the young female in the U. S. National Museum mentioned above. In 1915 I repeated this identification. The taking of a fine old male otter with a perfect skull in eastern Nebraska in 1916 reopened the whole question, and a close study …

On A New Subspecies Of Porcupine From Nebraska, Myron H. Swenk

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

Publication NO.2 of the Nebraska State Biological Survey.

Nebraska porcupines all belong to the yellow-haired species (Erethizon epixanthum) , and these animals have never been abundant in the state. Formerly, however, they were much more numerous than today, and enjoyed a more extended range in the state than they do at the present time. Up to about 1885 these animals occurred across the northern portion of Nebraska east at least to Pierce and Madison counties, there being records of four specimens secured along the small streams tributary to the Elkhorn river in these two counties between 1870 and 1885. Also, …

Dr. Nott's Theory Of Insect Causation Of Disease, William A. Riley

Harold W. Manter Laboratory: Library Materials

Excerpt:

The danger in using isolated sentences from an article as a basis for interpreting the author's theories, is generally recognized, but sometimes the most careful workers fall into the trap. Once the mistaken interpretation is published, it may be copied over and over again until it rises to the dignity of a dogma.

A striking illustration is afforded by the practical unanimity with which writers on the subject of insects and disease credit Dr. Josiah Nott with being the earliest to formulate definitely the theory of mosquito transmission of yellow fever.

Nuttall, in his classic monograph On the Role …

A Plea For The Protection Of Our Birds, Lawrence Bruner

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The fact that insect depredations are increasing in extent each succeeding year makes it plain to us that something must be done to prevent it, and that quickly. We have found to our sorrow that, although we are continually making increased efforts to destroy these pests, our efforts avail but little and the destruction of our crops goes on. What, then, is to be done? How can we be released from this ever-increasing struggle for existence? The answer is plain. Heed the advice of the Naturalist who has made a study of the life-histories of the various other living creatures …

A Preliminary Review Of The Birds Of Nebraska With Synopses, Lawrence Bruner, Robert H. Wolcott, Myron H. Swenk

Papers in Ornithology

In 1896, Prof. Bruner published his list entitled "Some Notes on Nebraska Birds." As a working basis for the study of the ornithology of the state it has proven invaluable and it has also been greatly in demand by people not ornithologists, who desired to "know something about our birds." That edition was exhausted some time ago and its author has been frequently urged to publish another. However, the organization of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union and the development of ornithology in the University has led to such a rapid increase in our knowledge in the past five years that it …

Article Xxii.-A New Genus Of Ground Sloth From The Pleistocene Of Nebraska, Barnum Brown

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

This genus is founded on a nearly perfect skull and lower jaw in the American Museum collections (No. 2780), with associated skeletal material including five cervical vertebrae, tibia, fibula, calcaneum, astragalus, lunar, middle digit of manus, and ribs, found by the Expedition of 1897 near Hay Spring, Nebraska. Professor Henry F. Osborn has placed this material in the writer's hands for description.

Proceedings Of The Nebraska Ornithologists' Union I, Ii, & Iii, 1899-1902, Robert Wolcott

Nebraska Bird Review

INDEX, Compiled by M. H. Swenk

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING, Lincoln, Nebr., Dec. 16, 1899

ABSTRACT OF MINUTES

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS — ORNITHOLOGY IN NEBRASKA. PROF. LAWRENCE BRUNER

A TWENTY-THREE YEARS' RECORD KEPT BY DR. A. E. CHILD OF PLATTSMOUTH, NEB., Dr. R. H. WOLCOTT

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF NORTHERN NEBRASKA. REV. J. M. BATES.

THE BIRD FAUNA OF THE SALT BASIN, NEAR LINCOLN. MR. J. S. HUNTER.

SOME BIRD NOTES FROM THE UPPER ELKHORN. MR. MERRITT CARY

SOME NOTES ON THE NESTING OF THE RAPTORES OF OTOE COUNTY, NEBRASKA. MR. M. A. CARRIKER, JR. …

Studies On Nebraska Parasites, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

The intimate relations in which domestic animals stand to man have always made the transfer of parasites from the one to the other a matter of much greater probability than exists between man and the other forms of animal life. It is but natural that the most common species of human tapeworm come to man from his two chief sources of animal food-beef and pork. The chances of accidental infection, however, are evidently much greater in the case of those forms that are intimately associated with man, and hence clearly greatest in those he holds as household pets,the dog and …

Note On Taenia Confusa, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

About a year ago I described in the Western Medical Review (Vol. I. pp. 35, 36) a new tape-worm under the name of Taenia confusa. Only two specimens of the form were available at that time and I have not been successful in obtaining others since then. During the past 'year, one of the students in the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Nebraska has been conducting a careful investigation of this form and one specimen has been entirely sacrificed to that purpose, In advance of the publication of his thesis it seems that I should make a short explanation …

Zoology In The High School Curriculum, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

A long time has elapsed since Bacon gave to the world the sound advice that “ we should accustom ourselves to things themselves.” Little by little this idea has gained ground, until now it is recognized as a general principle in every grade of educational work and in widely separated departments of study that contact with concrete objects is far more inspiring and thought-producing than the mere scanning of black marks on a white page. So far as natural science is concerned, the varied training which it affords has been abundantly discussed before this association and elsewhere. To be sure, …

A Biological Examination Of Lake Michigan In The Traverse Bay Region, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

During the summer of 1893 the Michigan Fish Commission entered upon a biological study of the Great Lakes by maintaining a party on Lake St. Clair. In the report of that two months, written by the director of the laboratory, Professor J. E. Reighard, are given in full the reasons which led to the inception of the undertaking and the aims which its promoters held in view. A study of the life of the lake in all its manifold interrelations and especially of those factors which bore upon the welfare of the food fishes in general and the young whitefish …

Animal Parasites Of Nebraska, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

The report submitted this year consists of two main portions: the first a short study on the numerical frequence of parasites among the dog, cat, and chickens of Nebraska, and the second of several brief accounts of new and important parasites discovered within the state since the publication of the last report.

The Food Supply Of The Great Lakes; And Some Experiments On Its Amount And Distribution, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

The subject of agriculture has received for many years the closest attention of scientific workers. Not only the character of the different products, their food value for different uses and in connection with the raising of different kinds of stock ; but also the value of the soil, the use of each element in it, the exact relation of each individual particle in the entire chain of biological relations from the unorganized matter to the saleable beef or pork, has received from the experiment stations of the country the most careful study. Every one of the pests, of the enemies …

A New Human Tapeworm (Taenia Confusa N. Sp.), An Entozoon, Probably Of Order Cestoidea, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

Somewhat more than a year ago a tapeworm was sent me which at first sight appeared decidedly unlike either Taenia saginata or Taenia solium. It showed the slender form and more delicate appearance of the latter, but was in length of segments even decidedly larger than the former species. Some notes were made at the time, and then, on account of pressure in other directions, laid aside to await opportunity for further study. This winter I received a second specimen which at once recalled the first, and on comparison was seen to be identical with it. A series of …

The Parasitic Worms Of Man And The Domestic Animals, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

This article has been written for the general information of those engaged either on a large or on a small scale in stock raising in our own state particularly, and, while not intended to be a complete treatise on the subject, it includes references to those parasites which seem to be the most important or most likely to be found within our borders. The parasites of cattle, sheep, horse, hog, dog, cat, and man, which have many species in common, form the subject of this paper. The parasites of domestic fowl are, however, quite different from those considered here and …

On Distoma Felineum Riv. In The United States And On The Value Of Measurements In Specific Determinations Among The Distomes, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

The distomes of cats have received special attention of late in the two papers of Braun (94) and Stiles and Hassall (94). The latter authors give a most admirable account of our present knowledge of a dozen allied forms, and record two, D. albidum and D. complexum n. sp., as found in cats in the United States. During the past year I have examined the cats killed at this laboratory, and have found neither of the forms recorded from the east. Distoma felineum, however, which Stiles and Hassall did not find. and which has not been reported hitherto for …

A New Method For The Quantitative Determination Of Plankton Hauls, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

Only two methods of estimating the quantity of plankton obtained in a haul of the vertical net are known to me. These two may be called the volumetric and the gravimetric. Both have been used by observers in various parts of the world, but so far as I know have never been comparatively tested in order to ascertain the relative value of results obtained by the two. The experience of the past year has shown some disadvantages in the first method, while the second has certain evident objections which rendered its employment in this case out of the question. In …

The Asiatic Lung-Distome In The United States, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

In 1893 I reported the occurrence of the Asiatic distome in the lungs of a cat examined in Ann Arbor, Mich. This was the first reported find of this species on this continent, and the possibility of its being a permanent guest in this country was so serious that I urged a careful examination of all cases of lung-parasites in the domestic animals, with a view to ascertaining whether this might be an isolated instance, or whether the parasite was actually established within our land, for it is true that the Chinese, among whom the parasite is very common, regard …

On Distoma Felineum Riv. In The United States And On The Value Of Measurements In Specific Determinations Among The Distomes (1895), Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

The distomes of cats have received special attention of late in the two papers of Braun (94) and stiles and Hassall (94). The latter authors give a most admirable account of our present knowledge of a dozen allied forms, and record two, D. albidum and D. complexum n. sp., as found in cats in the United States. During the past year I have examined the cats killed at this laboratory, and have found neither of the forms recorded from the east. Distoma felineum, however, which Stiles and Hassall did not find, and which has not been reported hitherto for the …

Report Of The Zoologist, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

In the report of last year was given a full summary of the present state of our knowledge concerning the parasites of man and the domestic animals. It is the intention of the following pages to review the parasitic fauna of the state of Nebraska so far as it is definitely determined, and also to include a list of some species reported but not accurately identified. The second section of this report presents a brief description of some important parasites not included in the group of worms, and hence not mentioned in last year's report. I shall omit all parasites, …

A Second Case Of Distoma Westermanni In The United States, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

In a previous number of the Veterinary Magazine, I have given an account of the discovery of Distoma westermanni in the lungs of a cat at Ann Arbor. The importance of the discovery within our country of this dangerous parasite. so common in the East, was emphasized, and an appeal was made for more information as to the presence of lung distomes in various hosts in the United States since, as stated (p. 357), “there is no need of emphasizing the importance of obtaining accurate knowledge as to the extent of the infection among animals, and even man;” . …

The Food Supply Of The Fish In The Great Lakes, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

When the early settlers made their homes along the shores of the Great Lakes, the waters of these inland seas teemed with fish. A cheap and apparently inexhaustible supply of food lay within easy reach, and they drew from it unstinted, nor was it strange that, with the increasing population and ever-widening means of communication, delicacies so tempting as the whitefish and lake trout were eagerly sought after in the markets of the neighboring cities, and that the ingenuity of generations of fishing folk was taxed to invent means of securing the fish-until finally, in the face of a growing …

Some Notes On The Biological Relations Of The Fish Parasites Of The Great Lakes, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

A pond or small lake furnishes few variations in depth, temperature, current, or food, and hence the life in it is comparatively uniform. Nowhere else in the world is there found such a continuous body of fresh water as in the Great Lakes. They afford, in themselves alone, an area of water one-fourth greater than that of the state of Nebraska; or, considering the streams and minor lakes within easy reach, no doubt the area is twice as great. Furthermore, there are found here conditions of temperature, depth, light and food more nearly like those prevailing in the ocean. As …

On The Presence Of Distoma Westermanni In The United States, Henry B. Ward

Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska

Last June a piece of the lung of a cat was brought me for examination, as it contained some foreign bodies which were unknown to the finder. A cursory examination showed them to be Distomidae, and more careful study seemed to confirm the first impression that, in spite of a few slight differences, they were specimens of the Asiatic Distoma westermanni. Being somewhat in doubt and not having the literature at hand, I sent several to Dr. C. W. Stiles, helminthologist of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington, D. C., who wrote that there was no doubt in …