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Avian cholera in a bald eagle from Ohio

No abstract available.
Authors
L. N. Locke, J.A. Newman, B. M. Mulhern

Egg measurements for three endangered species

From 1967 through 1969, external dimensions of the eggs of three endangered species of birds were measured. Included were 33 eggs of the Whooping Crane (Grus americana), 158 eggs of the Aleutian Canada Goose (Branta canadensis leucopareia), and 809 eggs of the Masked Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginiana ridgwayi). In the literature, there are only scattered reports of small samples of Masked Bobwhit
Authors
J.D. Stephenson, G. Smart

A repellent for protecting corn seed from blackbirds and crows

Methiocarb [4-(methylthio)-3,-5-xylyl N-methylcarbamate] was tested as a seed treatment for repelling blackbirds and crows (Corvus sp.) from sprouting corn in South Carolina. The test was conducted on eight fields within a 0.25-square-mile area. Marked repellency occurred; sprout damage averaged 44 percent in the control fields and 0.3 percent in the fields treated with methiocarb.
Authors
A.R. Stickley, J.L. Guarineo

The feeding of some ornithophilic black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the laboratory and their role in the transmission of Leucocytozoon simondi

Techniques and equipment are described for feeding, in the laboratory, Cnephia invenusta (Walker), Simulium innocens Shewell, and S. rugglesi Nicholson & Mickel collected from exposed birds at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Seney, Michigan, and C. ornithophilia Davies, Peterson, & Wood, S. euryadminiculum Davies, and S. rugglesi reared from larvae at the Seney Refuge (S. rugglesi) and the Pat
Authors
I.B. Tarshis

Proceedings of the eighty-ninth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union

The Eighty-ninth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 30 August-3 September 1971 at Seattle, Washington, under the sponsorship of the University of Washington. Business sessions and social activities were held in the Student Union Building and the University Tower Hotel; papers sessions were held in the Student Union Building. Day-long field trips were taken to Mount Rain
Authors
R.C. Banks

Further analysis of the logarithmic relationship of DDE residues to eggshell thinning

No abstract available.
Authors
L. J. Blus, C.D. Gish, A. A. Belisle, R. M. Prouty

Logarithmic relationship of DDE residues to eggshell thinning

A concentration-effect relationship seems to exist between DDE in eggs and shell thinning. It seems to follow a mathematically similar pattern in different species though it seems to operate at different levels.
Authors
L. J. Blus, C.D. Gish, A. A. Belisle, R. M. Prouty