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Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (December 1974) 42(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1974 (Forty-ninth) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ..................66

Notes ..................76

Index of Volume XXXXII ..................82

Effect Of "Stressors" On Corticosteroid-Binding Globulin Activity In The Rat During Pregnancy, Muhammad Nasir Hussain

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Hydrography And Hydrodynamics Of Virginia Estuaries Xiii: A Report Of The Prototype Data Collected In The York, Back, Poquoson, Piankatank, Great Wicomico And James Rivers For The Chesapeake Bay Model Study During 1973, J. P. Jacobson

Reports

This report describes methods used to collect and process current and salinity data for the York, Back, Poquoson, Piankatank, Great Wicomico and James Rivers, Virginia. Data was collected during 1973 as part of a study which investigates water utilization and control in the Chesapeake Bay Basin. Field procedures, equipment and data processing techniques are discussed in full.

Hydrography And Hydrodynamics Of Virginia Estuaries Xii: A Report On The Prototype Data Collected In The James River, E. P. Ruzecki, T. Markle

Reports

No abstract provided.

Food Use Of Wild Plants By Cherokee Indians, Myra Jean Perry

Masters Theses

Wild plants have long been a component of the diet of the Cherokee Indians. In this study, traditional knowledge of edible wild plants as a food source has been shown to exist in present day Cherokee society and the use of and beliefs about wild plants and other natural resource foods have been documented from accounts on the historic Cherokee.

It was noted that knowledge of wild plants may be passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. Attitudeds and beliefs toward teh consumption of wild plants affected the use of this knowledge.

The active collection of data …

Food Preference Influences On Meal Selections Of High School Students At Central High School, Knoxville, Tennessee, Robbie Fowler Needham

Masters Theses

For the purpose of this research it was hypothesized that teenagers use food preferences when making meal selections. The sample included all students attending six sections of the study hall at Central High School, Knoxville, Tennessee. Three hundred and ten pairs of usable questionnaires were obtained and both sexes from each of the three grades (10, 11, and 12) were represented.

A questionnaire containing both definitions and menu choices for three days was administered two weeks prior to the service of their meals. Students were asked to indicate their meal preference and to describe food items listed. The questionnaire was …

Food Use Of "Wild" Plants By Cherokee Indians, Myra Jean Perry

Masters Theses

Wild plants have long been a component of the diet of the Cherokee Indians. In this study, traditional knowledge of edible wild plants as a food source has been shown to exist in present day Cherokee society and the use of and beliefs about wild plants and other natural resource foods have been documented from accounts on the historic Cherokee.

It was noted that knowledge of wild plants may be passed from one person or generation to another by word of mouth. Attitudes and beliefs toward the consumption of wild plants affected the use of this knowledge.

The active collection …

The Relationship Of Alcohol Consumption In Rats To Morphine And Codeine Intake And The Metabolism Of Dopamine, Hsiu Fen Liu

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The effects of morphine and codeine free-choice alcohol consumption in male Sprague-Dawley rats were studied. Intakes of a 10% alcohol solution in milliliters per 100 gm. of body weight were on recorded weekly. No difference was found in the alcohol intake of rats given either a morphine-supplemented diet (0.01% of the diet) or daily injection of morphine sulfate (2 mg./kg.); however, there was a significant lower intake of water (p < .05) in those rats fed the diet with morphine. Total fluid consumption of both groups given the morphine-supplemented diet and daily injection of morphine sulfate was decreased (p < .05). It was found that morphine did not affect the percentage of total fluid consumed as alcohol or the weight gain.

Two levels of codeine phosphate (10 mg./kg. and 20 mg./kg.) were injected subcutaneously into rats twice a day. It was observed that the codeine significantly decreased alcohol intake in rats …

A Possible Function Of The Fibrillar Coat In Acanthocephalus Jacksoni Eggs, David F. Oetinger, Brent B. Nickol

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

Discusses a possible function of the fibrillar coat in Acanthocephalus jacksoni eggs.

Cetacean Notes. I. Sei And Rorqual Whales On The Mississippi Coast, A Correction. Ii. A Dwarf Sperm Whale In Mississippi Sound And Its Helminth Parasites, Gordon Gunter, Robin M. Overstreet

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

I. Gunter and Christmas (1973) described the events leading to the stranding of a baleen whale on Ship Island, Mississippi, in 1968, giving the species as Balaenopteru physalus, the Rorqual. Unfortunately the identification was in error, but fortunately good photographs were shown. The underside of the tail was a splotched white, but there was no black margin. The specimen also had fewer throat and belly grooves than the Rorqual, as a comparison with True’s (1904) photograph shows. Dr. James Mead (in litt.) pointed out that the animal was a Sei Whale, Balaenoptera borealis. This remains a …

An Estuarine Low Temperature Fish Kill In Mississippi, With Remarks On Restricted Necropsies, Robin M. Overstreet

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications

In January 1973, large numbers of Mugil cephalus (striped mullet), weighing approximately 250 gm each, died in two freshwater localities in tidewater bayous of Jackson County, Mississippi. Fish identified as Mugil curema, M. cephalus, Megalops atlantica, Dormitator maculatus, and Fundulus grandis were found dead in other low saline estuarine areas. Fish-kills during cold periods are less commonly encountered in Mississippi than in Texas or Florida. This particular incident is attributed to conditions of stress for fishes incompletely acclimated to the encountered low temperatures. The most deleterious stress was the low saline water which probably allowed a breakdown in the …

A Study Of Naturally Occurring Algicides Produced By Freshwater Algae, Denny O. Harris, Harry D. Caldwell

KWRRI Research Reports

The mode of action of the algicide produced by Pandorina morum was examined by exposing Volvox globator and isolates spinach chloroplasts to a partially purified algicide preparation. Oxygen evolution of Volvox, whole chloroplasts and broken chloroplasts (minus the Calvin cycle),was reduced indicating that the algicide inhibits the light reactions of photosynthesis. Oxygen evolution studies of other Volvocaceae confirmed the observation that Pandorina morum is not significantly influenced by its own inhibitor. Molecular weight approximation by gel filtration established that the inhibitor has a low molecular weight (probably below 100 mw). Field studies indicate that this algicide has tremendous potential as …

Toxoplasma Antibodies In Wild And Domiciled Animals From Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, And The Philippines., Alan A. Marchiondo

Biology ETDs

Using the Sabin-Feldman Dye Test, sera from wild and domestic animals in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines were tested for the prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii. The incidence of Toxoplasma in all animals from these areas was: Arizona (19.6%, 11 of 56), Colorado (28.6%, 2 of 7), Montana (41.7%, 73 of 175), New Mexico (31.3%, 178 of 569), Peru (0%, 0 of 3), and the Philip­pines (33.8%, 48 of 142). The overall prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma was 32.7% (312 of 952).

Nine fecal samples from wild felines contained Toxoplasma like oocysts which were experimentally …

Activity Of A Dipodomys Ordii Population Using Recapture Methods, James R. Garcia

Theses and Dissertations

Activity curves for Dipodomys ordii were developed from data obtained from a study utilizing an electrically monitored trapping grid. The curves for non-perturbated populations showed an initial post-dusk peak, followed by increasing activity and a large pre-dawn peak; but after ten dominant animals had been removed, the largest activity peak was post-dusk. Differences in activity patterns were not found among sex, age or reproductive classes. Rising ambient temperatures, falling barometric pressures, winds over 3.2 km/hr and the absence of the moon depressed capture numbers; while increasing humidity (relative and absolute), decreasing soil temperatures at 20 and 40 cm below ground …

The Effects Of Highway Construction On The Fish Populations In The Weber River Near Henefer, Summit County, Utah, Edward James Peters

Theses and Dissertations

Alterations of streams to facilitate highway construction and consumptive water use has become a fisheries management problem. To evaluate the effects of channeling concomitant to construction of Interstate 80 N. near Henefer, Utah, altered and unaltered sections of the Weber River were compared on the basis of fishes censused, population estimates and ordinations. Species compositions in particular areas were influenced by local rheologic conditions. Changes in species composition between samplings at a particular area were caused by fish movements. Data from altered sections, rehabilitated with deflectors and checkdams, were not noticeably different than data from unaltered areas. However, fish movements …

Erratum: On Improved Wkb (Uniform Asymptotic) Quantum Conditions, Dunham Corrections, The Langer Modification, And Rkr Potentials, Russell T. Pack

Faculty Publications

In Eqs. (28) and (29) p should be changed to t.

Food, Nutrition, And Health, Problems And Prospects, D. K. Salunkhe

Faculty Honor Lectures

Food, nutrition, and health - and their complex interrelationships - are necessities of life. Basically, nutrition depends on food; health depends on nutrition. Everyone needs to have enough good quality food to sustain himself. Satisfying that need on a world basis must be of concern to each of us.

Although accurate data are lacking, it is estimated that more than two-thirds of today's world population is afflicted by hunger and/ or malnutrition. Almost 300 million children are suffering physical and, probably, mental damage because of insufficient food. This evidence points to one of two conclusions: we have either too many …

Myrica Pubescens Humb. & Bonpl. Ex Willd., Turpe, Lognamo Y Lepez

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Corallorhiza Odontorhiza Nutt., C. Kennedy

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Farm Home And Ministers' Institute Program November 1 1974, Tennessee State University

Farm Home and Ministers' Institute Program

No abstract provided.

Marine Resource Information Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 7, Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Marine Resource Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Anatomical Specimens From Preserved Animal Discards, Harry L. Fierstine, Myron A. Amerine, Kathleen L. Bek

Biological Sciences

No abstract provided.

Soybean Production On Some Major Soils In Tennessee, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, George J. Buntley, Larry L. Bauer

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Narrow Row Cotton In Tennessee, University Of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, P. E. Hoskinson, J. A. Mullins, Tom Mccutchen

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Waterfowl Portraits, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

SINCE HIS days as a boy on the North Dakota prairies, Paul A. Johnsgard has "measured his winters, not by conventional time units, but in the days it took for the snow geese to return from their wintering grounds...." The author of five books: Song of the North Wind-A Story of the Snow Goose; Grouse and Quails of North America; Waterfowl- Their Biology and Natural History; Animal Behavior; and Handbook of Waterfowl Behavior, and of numerous articles in national magazines and over 40 technical papers, he is eminently qualified to capture in pen and ink the very essence of Nebraska's …

Diethylstilbestrol, Zeranol Or Synovex-S Implants For Growing Steers, L. B. Embry, W. S. Swan

South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1974

Numerous experiments during the past several years have shown that implanting feedlot steers or heifers with diethylstilbestrol (DES), zeranol or Synovex results in an increase in rate of gain with improved feed efficiency. Comparisons between the three products under various conditions are more limited. Therefore, comparative effects of DES, zeranol and Synovex-S were tested in a growing experiment where steers were full-fed corn silage with 2 lb. per head daily of protein supplement for a period of about 3 months.

Pine Sawdust As A Roughage Substitute In Beef Finishing Rations, L. D. Kamstra

South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1974

Previous reports discussed toxicity trials with untreated sawdust, indicating no toxicity to ruminants when fed up to 25% of the ration. The low digestibility (7-10%) of softwood sawdust produced from the mills in western South Dakota limits its usage as a major ration component. The objective of this experiment is to demonstrate the usage of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) sawdust as a nonnutritive roughage component in beef finishing rations.

Soybean Meal And Urea Supplements With Corn Silage At Various Stages Of Feeding For Growing Cattle, L. B. Embry, W. S. Swan

South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1974

Calves weaned and fed supplements containing urea generally have a period of reduced performance in comparison to those fed soybean meal supplements. The period of reduced gains may last for 3 to 4 weeks for calves unapted to urea, but it may vary in legnth and severity depending upon the level of urea, energy concentration of the diet, age of cattle and stresses to which subjected prior to arrival and at the feedlot. The period of reduced performance appears to become of lesser importance with increasing age of the cattle.

Effects Of Monensin On Feedlot Performance Of Growing And Finishing Steers, L. B. Embry, W. S. Swan

South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1974

Feed additives have become an important part of rations for feedlot cattle during the past several years. They have been shown to being about improved performance in various ways such as stimulating growth, favorable alterations in fermentative and synthetic activity of the digestive tract and improvement in general health of the animals allowing more efficienct absorption and utilization of nutrients consumed.

Protein Supplementation For Finishing Cattle Fed All-Concentrate Or Low Roughage (Alfalfa) Diets, L. B. Embry, W. S. Swan

South Dakota Cattle Feeders Field Day Proceedings and Research Reports, 1974

The experiment reported here was conducted to determine the need for supplemental protein in all-concentrate diets composed largely of corn grain and in diets with low levels of roughage (4 lb. of alfalfa haylage). Cattle fed supplements with soybean meal or urea were compared to those fed similar diets without supplemental protein to the corn or corn and alfalfa haylage.