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Screw-capped bacteriological culture tubes

No abstract available.
Authors
S. F. Snieszko

Further studies on the nutritional requirements of Colpoda duodenaria

No abstract available.
Authors
L. Garnjobst, E.L. Tatum, C.V. Taylor

A comparative study of the breeding bird population of Shenandoah Mountains, Virginia

WHILE working on habitat studies of the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) in the George Washington National Forest during the late spring and early summer of 1941, the author found it possible to carry out a supplemental study on the relative abundance of the breeding birds of the area. Since considerable time was spent in traversing certain sections of the forest in search of Ruffed Grouse broods,
Authors
R. E. Stewart

Bachman's sparrow in Maryland

The Bachman's Sparrow (Aimophila aestivalis bachmani) is known to be quite rare and irregular in distribution in the northern part of its range. Because of this the northern limits of its range have been rather ill-defined. According to the A. 0. U. Check-List, Fourth Edition: 343, 1931, this bird ranges north to central Virginia in the eastern part of its range and is casual near Washington, D. C
Authors
R. E. Stewart, B. Meanley

Hooded warbler in North Dakota

he 1942 warbler migration at Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota, was rich in species (seventeen) for a locality so far west on the Great Plains. On June 1, near the end of the northward flight, I found a male Hooded Warbler singing in shrubby undergrowth on a wooded coulee slope on the Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, about two miles south of Kenmare. The bird was observed at close range for sev
Authors
N. Hotchkiss

The common pine snake in West Virginia

No abstract available.
Authors
L. M. Llewellyn