Publications
This is a list of publications written by Patuxent employees since Patuxent opened in 1939. To search for Patuxent's publications by author or title, please click below to go to the USGS Publication Warehouse.
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Preliminary map showing breeding distribution of the poor-will
No abstract available.
Authors
J.W. Aldrich
Living fences--for more game and better farms
Shrub fences are coming back with multiflora rose. They mean more game, better farms. Here's an outstanding sprotsman's club project.
Authors
D.L. Allen
Barbed wire that grows
A many-flowered rose makes an ideal, living fence for farm and pasture lands.
Authors
D.L. Allen
Development of an index number for expressing degrees of repellent activity
No abstract available.
Authors
E. Bellack, J.B. DeWitt
Muskrat investigations on the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, 1941-1945
1. Approximately 5,233 acres of tidal marsh on the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland were trapped by Fish and Wildlife Service personnel from 1941-1945, with the closely controlled operations yielding 23,539 muskrats; 13,421 (57 per cent) were males and 10,090 (43 per cent) were females, a sex ratio of 133: 100. This preponderance of males was consistently maintained throughout the e
Authors
H.L. Dozier, M.H. Markely, L. M. Llewellyn
Comparison of methods for the determination of carotene
Replicate samples of dehydrated :alfalfa-leaf meal were assayed for carotene content by four different analytical procedures. The results obtained by the modified A.O.A.C.method were significantly higher than those obtained by the other procedures.
Authors
J.V. Derby, J.B. DeWitt
Notes on two species of Calliphoridae (Diptera) parasitizing nestling birds
In the course of studies on the effect of feeding DDT-killed insect larvae to nestling birds, some incidental information was gathered on Calliphorid parasites of the nestlings. The work was done at Lake Clear Junction, N. Y., during June and July, 1946.
Authors
J.L. George, R.T. Mitchell