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'When in doubt, check it out'--A request for banders to look before they leap, or publish and perhaps perish

If you have a recovery which is worthy of a note, it should be verified first with either the Banding Laboratory, where all the recovery letters are kept on file, or with the person who found the band.
Authors
B. Sharp

Occurrence of the Xantus' murrelet off the Oregon coast

No abstract available.
Authors
J. M. Scott, J. Butler, W.C. Pearcy, G.A. Bertrand

A specimen of the black-throated sparrow from western Oregon

No abstract available.
Authors
J. M. Scott, W.A. Thackaberry, G.A. Bertrand

Connoisseur of snails

No abstract available.
Authors
P.W. Sykes

Stilts nest at Little Creek

No abstract available.
Authors
F. B. Samson, J. R. Longcore

Aquatic weed problems in estuarine areas

No abstract available.
Authors
J.H. Steenis

Transcontinental mourning dove recovery

A Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) banded in New York has been reported shot in California. On 25 August 1969, near Palmyra (43°00' N, 77°10' W), New York Department of Environmental Conservation personnel placed U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service band 883-97279 on the leg of a hatching-year Mourning Dove of unknown sex. During the first weekend of the dove season in September 1970, Stan Solus (P.O. Bo
Authors
Brian Sharp

Organochlorine pesticide residues in woodcock, soils and earthworms in Louisiana, 1965

Woodcock (Philohela minor), earthworms, and soil samples were collected from January-March 1965, from fields in southeastern Louisiana approximately 3 years after discontinuance of areal treatments with heptachlor in this region. Heptachlor epoxide residues in woodcock averaged 0.42 ppm (dry weight), conspicuously lower than in 1961 and 1962. Residues of DDE in woodcock averaged 3.62 pprn, highe
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M. A. R. McLane, L. F. Stickel, J.D. Newsom