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Fungi. The best available textbooks dealing with fungi are in 

 French (see below). The species described in Dollfus' compilation are 

 of the greatest interest in view of the importance of the nematode 

 parasites of birds. 



Brumpt, E. (1949). Precis de parasitologie. Vols. I and II. Paris, (for fungi 



see pp. 1607-2039). (in French). 

 Dane, Surrey D. (1948). A disease of Manx Shearwaters {Pufflnus puffinus). 



J. Animal Ecol. ly : 158-164. 

 DoLLFUS, R. (1946). Parasites (animaux et vegetaux) des Helminthes. 



Encyclopedie Biologique. Paris. 

 Florey, H. W., Chain, E., Heatley, N. G., Jennings, M. A.^ Sanders, 



A. G., Abraham, E. P. and Florey, M. E. (1949). Antibiotics. A survey 



of Penicillin, Streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, acti- 



nomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 Volumes. Oxford University Press, 



London, New York and Toronto. 

 Gardner, A. D. (1931). Microbes and Ultramicrobes. London. 

 Langeron, M. (1945). Precis de mycologie. Paris, (reprinting, new edition 



promised for 1950). 

 •fPouLDiNG, R. H. (1952). Five cases of Aspergillosis in Immature gulls. 



Ibis: g4, No. 2, pp. 364-366. 

 Smith, K. M. (1940). The Virus; Life's Enemy. Cambridge (reprinted 



with appendix 1948). 

 *ToPLEY, W. W. C. and Wilson, G. S. (1929). Principles of Bacteriology 



and Immunity. (3rd edition). Revised by G. S. Wilson and A. A. Miles 



1946 (in two vols.), London. 

 Urbain, a. and Guillot, G. (1938). Les aspergilloses Aviaires. Rev. Path. 



Comp. Hyg. Gen. no. 503, 2y pp. (in French). 



Chapter 14, The Fauna of Birds' Nests 



There are, unfortunately, no general papers in English dealing with 

 the fauna of birds' nests, and it is to be hoped that someone will soon 

 supply the missing volume. Large numbers of scattered papers in 

 various entomological journals (such as the Entomologists^ Monthly 

 Magazine, the Entomologist, etc.) contain isolated records of beetles, 

 flies, fleas and other insects from nests of British birds, but an up-to- 

 date comprehensive review covering all the groups concerned is 

 urgently required. Chapter 14 has been compiled from both published 

 and unpublished notes generously supplied by Mr. Basden, Dr. China. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, Dr. Hinton, Mr. Spittle and Dr. Turk. 



The following publications should prove useful : 



