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adapted to climbing through hair. Therefore few, particularly in 

 the adult stage, are found away from the relatively bare places, and 

 hence some classes of stock become far more infested than others- 

 Animals in high condition are less subject to attack than those in 

 poor condition, but an animal in the very pink of condition may 

 become much infested. Some individual animalsare far less suscepti- 

 ble than others, but "tick-proof" animals have not been observed. 

 The less susceptible animals are probably found by as many ticks as 

 the others, but for an unexplained reason or reasons the ticks do not 

 take hold. In this connection it may be mentioned that most ticks 

 get on and tumble oft' a number of limes before securing a hold. 

 Horses are made lame by infestation beneath the fetlock; sheep and 

 goats by^attack between the toes. Ostriches are able to re.ich almost 

 all parts of their bodies to remove the tick, and so keep themselves 

 relatively free, the whole surface considered. Larvae, nymphs and 

 adults have all fastened on to the writer, but not so freely as on to 

 cattle. Oddly, the pubic regions appear to be most attractive to 

 them. This apparent preference was at first thought to be due to 

 the arrangement of the clothing, but latterly it has been learned 

 that native children, clad in a single garment hanging from the 

 shoulders, suffer the same experience. 



CHARLES P. LOUNSBURY. 

 Cape Town, South Africa. 



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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



KINGBIRDS EATING DRAGONFLIES. During July and August, 1899, 

 at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, Mass., kingbirds were fre- 

 quently observed to catch and eat a large species of dragonfly which 

 occurred abundantly about the house and downs The captured 

 insects were invariably carried to a convenient perch, usually a fence, 

 on which they were held with the bird's feet, while the wings were 

 stripped oft" and discarded, when the body was pulled to pieces and 

 eaten. J PERCY MOORE. 



[The dragonfly referred to was Epia'schna heros Fabr.; the king- 

 bird is, of course, the common Tyrannus, t >/)</ ///u/x L. This is the 

 most definite observation yet recorded, to my knowledge, on this 

 subject, J. L. Hersey, Can. Ent., April, 1873, p. 160, having merely 

 recorded that dragouflies are a favorite food for kingbirds See also 

 M. J. Elrod in THE NKWS for January, 1898, p. !), at bottom - 

 P. C. P] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL HONORS Dr. L. O. Howard, Professors John B. 

 Smith, F. M. Webster and II. F. Wickham were unanimously 

 elected honorary members of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 at its meeting of October 11 and 12, 1899. 



