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130 and 140 mm. long by 0.625 mm. thick and four are males 

 from 50 to 60 mm. long by 0.5 mm. thick. 



Six specimens of another Filaria were obtained from the abdomen 

 of a female Kingfisher, Ceryle alcyoii. The species appears to be 

 the Filaria physalma of Bremser, described from specimens obtained 

 from several species of Brazilian Kingfishers. Five of the worms 

 are females ranging from one foot to one foot and a half in length 

 and from one to one and a half millimeters in thickness. The head 

 is obtuse and the body gradually tapers to the tail. The mouth is 

 bounded by a pair of small conical papillae. The five females 

 measure, respectively, 12, 13, 14, 17, and 18 inches. A single male 

 is 35 mm. long by 0.625 mm. thick. The tail is incurved, ends in 

 a minute blunt cone, and is bialate, with the alse short and quinque- 

 costate. The length of the alated portion is 0.35 mm. The spicule, 

 partially exserted, is recurved. The specimens, when alive, were 

 pink in color and exhibited a slender chocolate-brown intestine, 

 with large tortuous white uteri. 



From the thoracic cavity of a Gray Snipe, GaUinago Wihonii, Dr. 

 Warren obtained five Flukes 18 mm. long by 4 mm. broad. The.se 

 appear to be Monostounini niutabile. 



From a whippoorwill, A)itrosto)iiiis vocifenis, Dr. Warren obtained 

 four worms, two females of 18 mm. and two males of 12 mm., which 

 appear to be Ascaris subulata. 



From the Pileated Woodpecker, Hylotomus pilcatus. Dr. Warren 

 obtained ten worms which appear to pertain to the Spiroptc7'a qiiad- 

 riloba Rudolphi, the female of which was originally described from 

 specimens found in the Green Woodpecker, Picns viridis. The 

 specimens are reported as having been found in the abdominal 

 cavity. Six are females from 9 to 12 mm. long by 0.5 mm. thick 

 and four males 7 and 8 mm. long by 0.375 ^im. thick. Body white, 

 nearly equally attenuated toward both ends ; transversely wrinkled 

 and anteriorly minutely, regularly, and sharply annulated ; mouth 

 quadrilobate. Tail of female conical subacute ; tail of male bialate, 

 sexcostate, end acute ; spicules two, the longest 1.5 mm. long, the 

 shortest o. 5 mm. long. 



[May, 1885. No 533. See Bibliography.] 



Bothriocephalus in a Trout. — Prof. Leidy remarked that through 

 Dr. B. H. Warren he had recently received from the Smithsonian 

 Institution several vials with tapeworms, obtained by Mr. L. M. 

 Turner from a trout, Salvelinus — /, at Ft. Chimo, Ungava. One 

 of the vials contained eight worms, ranging from 3 to 8 inches long 



