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On the Duck {Anas domesticus) 

 *Ldpeurus squalidus Nitzsch. *Menopon obscurum Piaget. 



*Ldpeiirus heterogrnplms Nitzsch. *Trinolon luridum Nitzsch. 



*Docophorus icterodes Nitzsch. 



On the Pea Fowl {Pavo crislalus) 

 *Menopon phcestomum Nitzsch. Goniodes parviceps Piaget. 



*Goniodes falcicornis Nitzsch. Goniocotes rectangulatus Piaget. 



On the Guinea Fowl {Numida meleagris) 

 Menopon numidice Denny. *Goniocotes abdominalis Piaget. 



Lipeurus numidice Denny. *Menopon pallidum Nitzsch. 



Goniodes numidianus Denny. 



On the Pigeon {Columba domestica) 

 *Colpocephalum longicaudum Nitzsch. Gonoides minor Piaget. 



*Goniocotes compar Nitzsch. Menopon latum Piaget. 



*Lipeurus baculus Nitzsch. Menopon longicephalum. 



Goniodes damicornis Nitzsch. *Menopon biseriaium Piaget. 



In addition to the Mallophagan parasites we should like to record 

 the definite occurrence of the hen flea {Ceratophyllus gallince) more 

 commonly known as Pulex avium in this country. Doctor Taschen- 

 berg records it from a great variety of birds including domestic fowls 

 but, so far as the writer is aware, it has been recorded from this coun- 

 try but once and that was by Baker in Canad. Ent., Vol. 27, p. Ill, 

 under the name Pulex avium. This single specimen was contributed 

 by Prof. Herbert Osborn and was collected at Ames, Iowa, but the 

 host was not given. 



In the spring of 1912, specimens of this flea were received from 

 Abington, Mass., with an inquiry concerning them and methods of 

 getting rid of them. The specimens were taken from the inside walls 

 and roof of a poultry house but were not collected directly from the 

 fowls. The correspondent informed me that the fleas had bitten her 

 so severely that the bites troubled her for two or three weeks after- 

 wards. The fleas had not been noticed until a few weeks after the 

 purchase of some chickens from a neighbor who had just returned 

 from California. It is thus barely possible that the fleas had been 

 imported from California although the correspondent did not think 

 the neighbor had brought any fowls from that state. 



The specimens were submitted to Baron Rothschild of England who 

 determined them as the hen flea, Ceratophyllus gallince. 



President W. D. Hunter: If there is no further business, adjourn- 

 ment will be in order. 

 Adjournment. 



