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Domestic chicken 



Natural and experimental prey. — Blaberus craniifer, U.S.A., Key 

 West, Florida. J.A.G. Rehn in 1912 (personal communication) ob- 

 served chickens feeding on nymphs oi B. craniifer which had dropped 

 to the ground from among stacked coffins in an undertaker's shack. 



Blatta oricntalis, U.S.A. (Rau, 1924) : The chickens ate cock- 

 roaches that were caught in traps. 



Hebardina concinna, Japan (Asano, 1937) : Experimental feeding 

 to white Leghorn chickens. 



Periplaneta americana, Surinam (Stage, 1947) : Several cock- 

 roaches ran ofif the floor of a house, which was being sprayed with 

 DDT, and were eaten by chickens. Although some chickens had DDT 

 tremors the next day, all appeared normal two days later. 



Pynoscelus surinamensis, Australia (Fielding, 1926) ; Formosa, 

 experimental feeding (Kobayashi, 1927) ; Australia, experimental 

 feeding (Fielding, 1927, 1928) ; U.S.A., Florida, experimental feed- 

 ing (Sanders, 1928) ; Antigua (Hutson, 1943) ; Hawaii (Illing- 

 worth, 1931; Schwabe, 1949, 1950a, 1950b). This cockroach is the 

 intermediate host of Oxyspirura mansoni, the chicken eye worm. 



Cockroaches, Guadeloupe (Dutertre, 1654) ; Africa (Moiser, 

 1947) : "Poultry" ate cockroaches which had been killed by DDT and 

 sodium fluoride. Hawaii (Zimmerman, 1948). 



Partridge 



Natural prey. — Cockroaches, British Guiana (Beebe, 1925a) : The 

 food of two small species of leaf -colored partridges that lived on the 

 jungle floor, consisted chiefly of cockroaches and beetles. 



Family MELEAGRIDIDAE 

 Meleagris gallopavo (Linnaeus) 



Common name. — Turkey. 



Natural prey. — Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Antigua (Hutson, 

 1943) : Turkeys were found heavily infected with Hanson's eye 

 worm of which P. surinamensis is the only known intermediate host. 

 These turkeys therefore were presumed to have fed on this cockroach. 



Order COLUMBIFORMES 



Family COLUMBIDAE 

 Streptopelia chinensis (Scopoli) 



Common name. — Chinese dove. 



Natural prey. — Pycnoscelus surinamensis, Hawaii (Schwabe, 

 1950b). 



