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Nirmus vulgatus Kellogg. 



Specimens from the Shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella 

 iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.). 



Oncophorus minutus Nitzsch. 



Specimen from the American coot, Fnlica americana 

 (Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the western blue- 

 bird, Sialia mexicana occidentalis (Monterey, Cal.) 



Cncophorus bisetosus Piaget, var. californicus Kellogg and Chap- 

 man. 



Specimens from the Virginia rail, Rallus virginianus 

 (Monterey, Cal.) 



Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. 



Specimens from the shoveller duck, Spatula c&ypeata 

 (Monterey, Cal.) 



Laemobothorium sp. 



Two specimens from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- 

 verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) Until this genus is 

 thoroughly revised we shall not attempt to make any species 

 determination in it. 



Physostomum sp. 



One young specimen from Townsend warbler, Dendroica 

 townsendi (Monterey, Cal.) 



Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. 



One specimen of this duck-infesting species, accredited, but 

 certainly wrongly, to a desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- 

 verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) The insect probably 

 came from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata. 



Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. 



One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, 

 (Monterey, Cal.) 



Colpocephalum stictum n. sp. (Fig. 2). 



A single male specimen from Gallinago dclicata, Wilson's 

 snipe (Monterey, Cal.) This is an elongated species with 

 conspicuous blotches on head, thorax and abdomen. 



