ART. 7 CESTODE PARASITES OF BIRDS LINTON ' 6 



Butorides vii'escens : 



July, August, and September. — Small fish {Fundulus)^ on 5 

 dates ; insects, 3 dates. 

 Goccyzus americanus : 



June. — Stomach of one bird contained 20 caterpillars and frag- 

 ments of beetles. 

 Colymbus auritus: 



January, February, March, April, November, and December. — 

 Fish {Fundulus, silversides, sculpins) , 5 dates ; Nereis, 2 dates ; 

 shrimp, 1 date. 

 Colymhus holhoelli: 



January, Februarj^, March, April, November, and December. — 

 Fish (cunners, sculpins, silversides), 14 dat«s; Nereis, 3 dates; 

 amphipods, crabs, and shrimp, 1 date. 

 Fulica americana: 



November. — Mussels, 2 dates. 

 Gavia iniTner: 



January, February, April, July, and December. — Fish (cunners, 

 menhaden, sculpins, silversides), 11 dates. 

 Larus argenfatus : 



January, February, March, April, May, June, August, Septem- 

 ber, November, and December. — Fish (alewives, cunners, her- 

 ring, sand eels, sculpins, silversides), 12 dates; crabs, 4 dates; 

 starfish, 2 dates ; mussels, 9 dates ; garbage, 14 dates. 

 Larus ati^cilla: 



April, May, July, August, and September. — Fish (pipe fish, 

 pollock, silversides, young herring), 10 dates; insects, 3 dates; 

 small moUusks, 1 date ; small crustaceans, 1 date. 

 July 3. — One stomach contained 66 wasps, 1 beetle, and many 



fragments of insects. 

 July 30. — Approximately 300 isopods {I doted) and small crabs 

 4 mm. in breadth, were found in the stomach of one gull. 

 Lm'us delawarensis : 



January. — Crabs and gravel. 

 Larus inaHnus: 



January. — Crabs, 1 date; mussels, 1 date. 

 April. — Fish (cunners), 1 date. 

 Larus phUadelphia: 



November. — Fish (sand eels, silversides). G dates; shrimp, 1 

 date: small crustaceans {Mysls), 1 date (number in vial, 

 1,670). 

 April. — Copepods, 1 date. 

 Marila americana: 



February. — Mollusks, Ulva^ and eel grass, 1 date. 



