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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

Winter bird survey, 1972

No abstract available.
Authors
D.R. Bystrak, C.S. Robbins

Some effects of aldrin-treated rice on Gulf Coast wildlife

Wildlife casualties from aldrin-dieldrin poisoning are associated with the planting of aldrin-treated rice seed along the Texas Gulf Coast. The fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor), which depends on the rice field habitats and is highly susceptible to aldrin-dieldrin poisoning, is suffering a serious population decline in that area. Dead waterfowl, shorebirds, and passerines were collected on
Authors
Edward L. Flickinger, K. A. King

Birds imported into the United States in 1969

No abstract available.
Authors
R.C. Banks, R. B. Clapp

Woodcock status report, 1971

No abstract available.
Authors
E.R. Clark