BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 



ONLY A FEW books havc been written which are concerned with the 

 study of parasites in general (see below) and none has been 

 published in this country. Moreover, the great majority of such books 

 are limited to the description of the parasites of man and domestic 

 animals, and chief stress is laid on their medical and veterinary im- 

 portance. The outstanding textbook of this sort is Brumpt's Precis de 

 Parasitologie (6th edition, Paris, 1949), which is over 2,000 pages in 

 length and illustrated with 1,305 text figures. It is written in the 

 French language. Although the book deals exclusively with the para- 

 sites of man, it is so comprehensive that a general idea of the morphology, 

 Hfe-cycles and classification of all the major parasitic groups can be 

 obtained from this monumental work. 



There are no books in any language dealing exclusively with the 

 parasites of birds. The nearest approach is a recent publication edited 

 by Biester and Schwarte, Diseases of Poultry (Iowa, 1948). Consequently, 

 the general reader and the ornithologist who may now be interested are 

 left to struggle with the scattered hterature to the best of their ability. 



In Britain, France, Germany and the United States there are 

 scientific periodicals devoted exclusively to parasitology — which can 

 be read in the hbraries of the British Museum (Natural History), the 

 Science Museum and the Zoological Society — and with the aid of the 

 subject indexes at the end of the volumes the papers dealing with bird 

 parasites can be sorted out and studied. 



The scientific publications in such journals generally contain 

 references to previous papers and various books dealing with the same 

 subject, which helps the reader in tracking down further information. 

 In addition to these journals there are various publications designed 

 specially to assist the zoologist in keeping abreast of current literature, 

 pubHshed both here and abroad. These consist of classified abstracts, 

 classified fists of titles and authors, in conjunction with copious subject 

 indexes. The geographical distribution of the animals in question is 



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