of H. rufipes and of H. truncatvun (= H. transiens ) could be dif- 

 ferentiated at that time . Nymphs have been reported from a hare 

 (Alexander, Mason, and Neitz 1939), and from a kite (Sudan records 

 above); the former workers induced five of the twelve nymphs to 

 reattach to a guinea pig. 



Kratz (194-0) records the finding of a nymph, which molted 

 into a male rufipes , on a female comorant caught on the high seas 

 between the northern trip of Madagascar and the Comores Archipelago. 



The Onderstepoort collection (Theiler, correspondence) has 

 larvae (l) and/or nymphs (N) from the following South African 

 birds : 



N Namaqua thrush, Afrocichla smithi 



LN Cape thrush, Afrocichla o. olivacea (2 collections) 



N White- throated seed-eater, Crithagra a. albogularis 



LN Mocking chat, Thamnolaea c. cinnamomeTventris (3 collections) 



N Red-winged starling, Amydrus m. morio 



N Starling (Southwest Africa; 



N Boubou shrike, Lanjarius f . ferruginetis 



N Gray tit, Parus""^!? 



N Fiscal flycatcher , Sigelus silens 



N Cape bam owl, Tyto alba af finis 



The same collection contains nymphs from a hare and a rock hare 

 (Pronolagus randensis) in South Africa and from a hare in Uganda. 



In Egypt, nymphs (reared to adiilts in the laboratory) have been 

 foxmd only on birds (Hoogstraal, ms.) although advilts are locally 

 common on domestic animals. The hosts have been: 



Wheatear (European form), Oenanthe o. oenanthe 



Blackeared wheatear (Eastern fonaj , " "Oenanthe hispanlca melanoleuca 



The former bird breeds throxighout most of Europe east to Central 

 and northern Asia and to northern Alaska; it winters in Arabia and 

 tropical Africa, also in Asia to India. The latter "breeds in the 

 Crimea, Bulgaria, and almost throughout the Balkan peninsula, Asia 

 Minor, Palestine, and western Persia, etc.; winters in Egypt and 

 Sinai to the Sudan, Ethiopia, the Red Sea coast, and has straggled 



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