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Marila mania: 



January and February. — Small moUusks, on 5 dates; eel grass 

 and Ulva, 1 date. 

 Mergus serrator: 



January, February, April, and November. — Fish (cunners, 

 pholas, sculpins (eggs), silversides, stickleback, tautog), 18 

 dates; mussels, 1 date. 

 Nycticorax nycticorax, naevius: 



May, July, and September. — Fish {Fundulus, silversides, whit- 

 ing, from fish pound), 12 dates. 

 Oidemia deglandi: 



' February, June, July, August, September, October, and Novem- 

 ber. — Bivalve mollusks (Mytilus, Ve7ius, Yoldia), 8 dates; 

 gastropod mollusk shells, some containing hermit crabs, 2 

 dates. 

 October 18. — Two birds examined; one contained 736 (esti- 

 mated) small clams {Ve/nus), 3 to 7 mm. in length; the other 

 contained 728 (estimated) of the same, 3 to 8 mm. in length. 

 Oidemia pers'picillata: 



February, May, and July. — Small bivalve mollusks, 3 dates; 

 univalve mollusks, 1 date. 

 Podilynibus podiceps: 



November. — Feathers and down, 2 dates. 

 Puffinus horealis: 



August. — Fish and squid, 1 date. 

 Sterna dougalli: 



August. — Fish. 1 date. 

 Sterna hirundo: 



August and* November, — Fish {Fundidus, silversides), 3 dates; 

 squid, 1 date; insects (Hymenoptera), 1 date. 

 The greater part of the work of the preparation of this report 

 was done at the medical department of the University of Georgia, 

 Augusta, Georgia. 



LIGULA INTESTINALIS (Linnaeus) 

 Figures 1-4 



There are considerable differences exhibited by the outlines of the 

 anterior ends of strobiles. Two types of these are shown in figures 

 1, 2 ; the one elongated and sharp-pointed, the other bluntly rounded. 

 There is a superficial segmentation of the strobile, but only at the 

 anterior end. Thus in a mounted specimen measuring about 56 mm. 

 in length segments occur only on the anterior 12 mm., where there 

 are 38 distinct proglottides. They cease abruptly, the succeeding 

 part of the strobile being transversely rugose, but without any indi- 



