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refuge of masses or balls of paiasites (tilaria?); iiudcr 

 the bony covering of the skull of the Auhinga or Snake 

 bird u species of parasite is usually to be found. 

 These parasites are often seen in birds of prey which 

 subsist on an animal diet. Tapeworms are vei-y com- 

 mon in the intestines of Crow Blackbirds, which are 

 omnivorous. VViien in Florida, in 1885, the writer 

 round the intestines of several Quail fairly gorged 

 with whitish, pinkish or yellowish colored tapeworms. 

 It was noticed that the (iuail had been feeding to a 

 considerable extent on a small species of batrachian. 

 called by the natives "rain or sand frogs." In a 

 period of about three months, in 1895, the writer ob- 

 tained fully one hundred and twenty-five specimens of 

 internal parasites from land and water birds and do- 

 mesiicaled fowls in Floi'ida. These specimens, pre- 

 pared in alcohol, with full data, were presented to the 

 late Joseph Leidy, M. D. Many of these specimens, 

 some of which were new to science, were fully de- 

 scribed by I'rcf. Leidy, in Medical Journals, etc. 



Unfortunately, the fire of 1897, which destroyed the 

 oflfice, library, note bC'Oks, etc., of the writer, consumed 

 a large amount of data concerning tapeworms and 

 other parasites of wild birds, mammals and domestic 

 fowls, which had been collected by me in the field or 

 presented by my esteemed friend and instructor, Prof. 

 Jose7)h Leidy. who liad, a short time prior to his death, 

 accuiiiulated a considprable amount of data concern 

 iiit;- I a](c\\ Drills of doTiiesticated fowls and wild aiii 

 mals. 



R. H. WARREN. 



