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  REPORT 
  OF 
  NEW 
  JERSEY 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  DOCOPHORUS 
  Nitzsch. 
  

  

  D. 
  lari 
  Denny. 
  Found 
  on 
  several 
  species 
  of 
  gulls 
  occurring 
  along 
  the 
  

  

  Jersey 
  shore 
  and 
  bays. 
  

   D. 
  melanocephalus 
  Burm. 
  Occurs 
  on 
  gulls 
  and 
  terns 
  of 
  various 
  species 
  

  

  in 
  North 
  and 
  South 
  America 
  and 
  Europe. 
  

   D. 
  icterodes 
  Nitzsch. 
  Common 
  on 
  ducks 
  and 
  geese, 
  domesticated 
  and 
  

  

  wild. 
  

   D. 
  cygni 
  Denny. 
  The 
  little 
  red 
  swan 
  louse; 
  common 
  throughout 
  Europe 
  

  

  and 
  eastern 
  North 
  America. 
  

   D. 
  fusiformis 
  Denny. 
  Occurs 
  on 
  the 
  Sandpipers; 
  "Tringa" 
  sp. 
  

   D. 
  testudinarius 
  Denny. 
  Taken 
  on 
  Bartrams 
  Sandpiper; 
  also 
  known 
  as 
  

  

  "Upland, 
  " 
  "Field" 
  or 
  "Grass" 
  Plover. 
  

   D. 
  platystomus 
  Nitzsch. 
  Infests 
  hawks 
  and 
  eagles 
  generally. 
  

   D. 
  buteonis 
  Pack. 
  Found 
  on 
  the 
  red-shouldered 
  hawk 
  and 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  king-birds, 
  "Tyrannus 
  atra." 
  

   D. 
  halieti 
  Osb. 
  Found 
  on 
  the 
  bald 
  eagle. 
  

   D. 
  cursor 
  Nitzsch. 
  Occurs 
  on 
  owls 
  of 
  various 
  kinds. 
  

   D. 
  bubonis 
  Osb. 
  Infests 
  the 
  great 
  horned 
  owl. 
  

   D. 
  ceblebrachys 
  Nitzsch. 
  Parasitic 
  on 
  the 
  snowy 
  owl. 
  

   D. 
  coccygi 
  Osb. 
  Taken 
  from 
  the 
  yellow-billed 
  cuckoo. 
  

   D. 
  superciliosus 
  Nitzsch. 
  Infests 
  the 
  hairy 
  woodpecker. 
  

   D. 
  fusco-ventralis 
  Osb. 
  Occurs 
  on 
  the 
  wood 
  pewee. 
  

   D. 
  corvi 
  Osb. 
  Makes 
  life 
  miserable 
  for 
  the 
  common 
  crow. 
  

   D. 
  transpositus 
  Kellogg. 
  Found 
  on 
  the 
  cowbird. 
  

   D. 
  agelaii 
  Osb. 
  Infests 
  the 
  red-winged 
  blackbird. 
  

   D. 
  quiscali 
  Osb. 
  A 
  parasite 
  of 
  the 
  crow 
  blackbird. 
  

   D. 
  compar 
  Piaget. 
  On 
  the 
  American 
  or 
  red 
  cross-bill. 
  

   D. 
  communis 
  Nitzsch. 
  A 
  general 
  parasite 
  on 
  larks, 
  blackbirds 
  and 
  many 
  

  

  other 
  Passerines. 
  

  

  NIRMUS 
  Nitzsch. 
  

   N. 
  iineolatus 
  Nitzsch. 
  Taken 
  on 
  various 
  gulls 
  in 
  Europe 
  and 
  America. 
  

   N. 
  furvus 
  Nitzsch. 
  Occurs 
  on 
  "Phalaropus," 
  and 
  also 
  recorded 
  from 
  

  

  Plovers. 
  

   N. 
  piceus 
  Nitzsch. 
  On 
  the 
  American 
  Avocet 
  or 
  "Blue-stocking." 
  

   N. 
  signatus 
  Piaget. 
  A 
  companion 
  of 
  the 
  preceding 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  hosts. 
  

   N. 
  cordatus 
  Osb. 
  Recorded 
  from 
  the 
  Hudsonian 
  Godwit 
  or 
  ring-tailed 
  

  

  Marlin. 
  

   N. 
  orarius 
  Kellogg. 
  A 
  parasite 
  of 
  the 
  Golden 
  Plover. 
  

   N. 
  boephilus 
  Kellogg. 
  Infests 
  the 
  "Killdeer." 
  

   N. 
  abruptus 
  Osb. 
  Infests 
  the 
  common 
  "Bob 
  White." 
  

  

  