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following report, made by Mr. J. D. Mitchell, of collections in Vic- 

 toria County, Texas, in December, 1907 : ' ' On December 19 I shot 

 twelve quail, each of which, as soon as killed, was placed in a clean 

 white sack. ' The first examination was made thirty minutes after 

 death, when sixtj'-five ticks were found in the sack. The other eleven 

 birds were apparently equally infested. Upon removing the birds 

 from the sacks more than five hundred ticks were collected. That 

 there were 1,000 ticks upon the twelve quail would be a conservative 

 estimate." In a collection of ticks received by the Bureau of Ento- 

 niolog^" from Prof. F. L. Washburn was found a Ha?mapliysalis n\miph 

 labeled as taken from a Harris sparrow {Zonotrichia querula) at St.^ 

 Anthony Park, Minnesota. Thus it is seen that this tick is nourished 

 and disseminated in great numbers by these hosts in a large part of the 

 United States. Unfortunately we are unable to distinguish leporis- 

 palustris from chordeilis in the immature stages. As an adult speci- 

 men of chordeilis has also been collected in Victoria County, Texas, 

 from a quail, we feel justified in concluding that at least a portion of 

 these immature ticks belong to that species. While, with the excep- 

 tion of an engorged female reported as taken from a horse in Texas 

 by Dr. Cooper Curtice, H. leporis-palustris has never been reported 

 as taken from hosts other than hares and rabbits, it is not too much to 

 suppose that the immature stages of this tick, so common on these 

 hosts, also attach to birds. 



During the past year two adults of a new species of Aponomma* 

 have been collected by Mr. J. D. Mitchell, one an engorged female 

 from a dog at Corpus Christi, Texas, the other a partially engorged 

 female from a rabbit at Refugio, Texas. Several engorged nymphs 

 and numerous unengorged larvie of apparently this same species were 

 collected by the writer in December, 1907, from quail at Hawthorne, 

 Florida, thus showing that this species is widely distributed through- 

 out the southern part of the United States.^ 



Larvffi and occasionally engorged nymphs of a species of Ixodes, 

 probably either Ixodes scapularis or cooTiei, have been found by the 

 writer attached to birds at Grand Cane, Louisiana, and Ha\\i;horne, 

 Florida, on blue jays (Cyanocitfa cristafa) and at Quincy, Florida, 



*Since described by Mr. Nathan Banks as A. iiioniata. 



°The fact that molted larval skins have been found on birds in Texas in con- 

 nection with the immature stages of Haemaphysalis and not on birds in Florida 

 in connection with the immature stages of Aponomma surely is strong cir- 

 cumstantial evidence. This habit will soon be determined, however, either by 

 the collection of perfect skins or from the breeding of seedticks that have 

 hatched from eggs deposited by one of the type specimens. 



