272 FLEAS, FLUKES AND CUCKOOS 



Books on the bird host 

 ♦BiESTER, H. E. and Schwarte, L. H. (1943). Diseases of Poultry. (2nd 



edition). Revised 1948. Iowa, U.S.A. 

 Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 27 vols. London. 

 |Grasse, Pierre-P. (editor) (1950). Oiseaux. Traite de ^oologie, XV. Paris 



(in French). 



Peters, J. L. (1931 — ). Clieck-List of Birds of the World. Cambridge, Mass. 

 Romanoff, A. L. and A. J. S. ( 1 948) . The Avian Egg. London and New York. 

 Stresemann, E. (1927- 1 934). Aves : in Kiikenthal and Krumbach, Hand- 

 buch der Zoologie. Bd. 7, Hft. 2. Berlin and Leipzig (in German). 



WiTHERBY, H. P., JOURDAIN, F. R. C, TiCEHURST, N. F., TuCKER, B. W. 



(1938- 1 941). The Handbook of British Birds. Vols. I-V. London. 



Note : The lists of parasites given for each species of bird in Niethammer's 

 Handbuch der deutschen Vogelkunde I-II, Leipzig 193 7- 1938 is totally un- 

 reUable and it is best to ignore this part of the publication. An accurate 

 compilation of records of the parasites of British birds — providing that in 

 all cases the source of the record is given — would be quite invaluable. 



Chapters 2 and 3. Commensalism and Symbiosis 



There are no books which deal specifically with commensalism and 

 symbiosis among birds, but the following papers should be consulted and 

 the various references listed in their respective bibliographies should 

 also be read and studied. If added information is required about 

 particular species of birds, for instance the buff-backed heron, or the 

 sheath-bills, it is advisable to consult accepted ornithological authorities 

 such as Bannerman {Birds of Tropical West Africa^ Vols. I-V, London, 

 1930), or Murphy [Oceanic Birds of South America, Vols. I & II, New York, 

 1936). One or two papers have been published recently dealing specifi- 

 cally with the peculiar habit known as phoresy. 



Commensalism and Symbiosis 

 •j-Allee, W. C, Emerson, A. E., Park, O., Park, T., and Schmidt, K. P. 



(1949). Principles of Animal Ecology. 837 pp. Saunders, Philadelphia. 

 *Baker, E. C. Stuart (1931). Nesting associations between birds and 



wasps, ants or termites in the Oriental Region. Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 



6: 34-37- 

 BucHNER, P. E. C. (1930). Tier und Pflanze in Symbiose. Berlin (in German), 

 f Davenport, Demorest (1955). Specificity and behavior in symbioses. 



The Quart. Rev. of Biol., 30: 29-46. 

 |Durango, S. (1949). The nesting associations of birds with social insects 



