BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS OF COCKROACHES — ROTH & WILLIS 277 



Order ANSERIFORMES 



Family ANATIDAE 



Domestic duck 



Natural prey. — Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Australia (Fielding 

 1926) : The ducks became infected with Hansen's eye worm of 

 which P. surinamensis is the only known intermediate host. 



Cockroach, Bermuda (Jones, 1859) : "All kinds of poultry feed 

 greedily upon the cockroach; tame ducks spending entire moonlight 

 nights in their capture." 



Order GALLIFORMES 



Family PHASIANIDAE 



Bambusicola thoracica Temminck 



Common name. — Kojukei. 



Natural prey. — Cockroaches, Japan (Asano, 1937). 



Gallus sp. 



Common name. — Jungle fowl. 



Natural prey. — Pcriplaneta australasiae, Hawaii (Schwartz and 

 Schwartz, 1949). 



Phasianus calchicus karpowi Buturlin 



Common name. — Korean pheasants. 



Experimental prey. — Blattella germanica and Periplaneta picea, 

 Japan (Asano, 1937) : Adults of these cockroaches were devoured at 

 once when they were fed with the heads cut off. 



Phasianus sp. 



Cojnmon name. — Pheasant. 



Natural prey. — Blattidae, unidentified (below i percent of the diet), 

 Cutila soror (below i percent of the diet), Diploptera punctata (above 

 6 percent of the diet), and Pycnoscelus surinamensis (6 percent of the 

 diet), Hawaii (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1949). 



Coturnix coturnix japonica (Temminck and Schlegel) 



Common name. — Japanese quail. 



Natural prey. — Blattidae (unidentified) and Lohopterella dimidia- 

 tipes, Hawaii (Schwartz and Schwartz, 1949). 



