Proceedings of 



the United States 



National Museum ^^^^ 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 118 



Number 3532 



A REVISION OF THE GENUS FURNARICOLA (MALLOPHAGA) 

 WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES 



By M. A. Carriker, Jr. ^ 



The present paper has been prepared with much care for two 

 reasons: The first and most urgent is to clarify the taxonomic position 

 of the genus itself, which has been a controversial one since it was 

 placed under the synonomy of Rallicola in the 1952 "Checklist of 

 Mallophaga" by Hopkins and Clay. The second reason is to describe 

 additional material which has been collected by the author since the 

 genus was established in 1944 and also to record its occurrence on 

 two other families of birds, from one of which no Mallophaga have 

 previously been taken. 



It will be noted that the bird hosts, with very few exceptions, have 

 all been collected and prepared by the author himself, which has 

 given him an unprecedented opportunity to verify the hosts in question 

 and to check on any cases of suspected straggling. 



All measurements are in millimeters and all drawings were prepared 

 by the author mth the greatest possible accuracy. Types, unless 

 otherwise indicated, are in the author's collection.^ 



' Deceased July 27, 1965. 



2 Mr. Carriker bequeathed his entire collection of Mallophaga to the U.S. 

 National Museum, where it is housed in the Department of Entomology. 



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