PROCEEDINQS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. IV, pp. 457-499. [Plates xxviii-xxxi.] September 30, 1902. 



PAPERS FROM THE HOPKINS STANFORD 

 GALAPAGOS EXPEDITION, 1898-1899. 



X. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL RESULTS (8). 



MALLOPHAGA FROM BIRDS. 

 By Vernon L. Kellogg and Shinkai I. Kuwana. 



Stanford University, Cal. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 457 



Systematic account ^60 



List of hosts with parasites 489 



Index 499 



INTRODUCTION. 



The first collection ever made of the parasitic insects Mal- 

 lophaga (biting lice) found on the birds of the Galapagos Islands 

 is that made by Mr. Snodgrass in 1898-1899 and here reported 

 on. The collection includes specimens from 183 birds and 

 represents 34 out of the 79 species of birds. Parasites were 

 taken from 26 of the 48 bird species and all of the five bird 

 genera peculiar to the Galapagos. This enumeration of bird 

 species is based on the work of Rothschild and Ilertert.^ To 

 their list Snodgrass and Heller have added at least three spe- 

 cies. The last published list of Galapagos birds, prior to Roths- 



' Novitates Zoologica, Vol. vi, pp. 85-205, August, 1S99. 

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