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received numerous live specimens from Mr Lounsbury and others have 

 been examined (from the same source) by Neumann (1901, p. 253). 

 GueVin-Meneville's (1829-43) specimens came from the Island of 

 Mauritius (A. mauritianus) where they infested fowls. 



America : It (A. miniatus) appears to be widely distributed, having 

 been found in N. and S. America and in the West Indies. In the United 

 States it has been frequently reported from Texas : : F. G. Schanph (accord- 

 ing to Packard, 1895, p. 417) reported in November, 1884, that it caused 

 a large mortality in chickens in Dunant County. It is also reported by 

 Marx, 1892 a, Riley and Howard, 1893, p. 267, Hoehr, 1893, p. 348, 

 Osborn, 1896, p. 256, as destroying fowls in Kinney Co. and San Diego. 

 Hassall, 1900, p. 499, believed that it was extending northward in 

 Texas. Banks (1901, p. 590 and 1902a, p. 568) reports "A. sanchezi" 

 from Catalina Springs, A rizona (April), and from New Mexico (July). 

 Several authors report the ticks from California where they infested 

 a fowl house at Lakeside (Marx, 1892 a, Banks, 1904, p. 331). Packard, 

 1895, received specimens from Merced 1 where they attacked chickens 

 and turkeys, and they have been found on the quail at Mariposa 

 according to Neumann (1896, p. 18). They injure fowls in Florida 

 according to Salmon and Stiles, 1901, p. 405. The tick occurs in 

 Mexico (A. sanchezi) at Guanajuato and in Southern California. 

 Numerous specimens have reached us from Brazil from Dr A. Lutz 

 (Sao Paulo) and through the courtesy of Drs Marchoux and Borrel, 

 of the Pasteur Institute, the ticks being infected with Spirochaetes 

 causing disease in fowls. "A. chinche" also occurs in temperate parts 

 of Colombia where it attacks man, and Koch's type of "miniatus" 

 came from Demerara (Brit. Guiana). In the West Indies the fowl tick 

 has been found at Trinidad where Hart 2 (1899, p. 180) supposes they 

 were imported from the United States, and Goodwin (Nn., 1901, p. 235) 

 also reports it as infesting chickens at Antigua. 



Australia : Lounsbury (ix. 1903, p. 1) says the fowl tick occurs in 

 all five of the Australian Colonies, and no doubt he is correct for 

 W. Australia and Queensland. We find it recorded for the other colonies 

 as follows: Victoria: specimens found on fowls at Melbourne by 

 Desmond (Nn., 1901, p. 253; see also Brown, 1902). New South 



1 We have examined specimens collected in fowl houses in Texas in 1907 (sent by 

 W. D. Hunter), and others off fowls in Merced, collected by Ehrhorn in 1894. Banks 

 (1908, p. 15) has seen specimens from Austin, Georgetown, El Paso, Patton, San Antonio, 

 Brackettville, and Colorado City, Texas ; also from Riverside, California. 



3 Nuttall has received specimens in all stages collected by Mr Hart from Mr H. A. 

 Ballon (Barbados). 



