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refuge of luajjises or balls of parasites (filaria?); under 

 the bony covering of the skull of the Auhinga or JSuake 

 bird a species of parasite is usually to be found. 

 These parasites are often seen in birds of prej which 

 subsist on an animal diet. Tapeworms are very com 

 mon in the intestines of Crow Blackbirds, which are 

 omnivorous. When in Florida, in 1885, the writer 

 found the intestines of several Quail fairly gorged 

 with whitish, pinkish or yellowish colored tapeworms. 

 It was noticed that the Quail lind 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- 

 mesticated fowls in Florida. These specimens, pre- 

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

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

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

 scribed b}' I'rO'f. Leid}', in Medical Journals, etc. 



Unfortunately, the fire of 1897, which destroyed the 

 office, library, note books, 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. 

 Joseph Leidy, who had, a short time prior to his death, 

 accumulated a considerable amount of data concern- 

 ing tapeworms of domesticated fowls and wild ani 

 mals. 



B. H. WARREN. 



