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cavity in (lit- intestinal mucous membrane and both cephalic 

 an<l caudal ends protruding above the surface of the lining 

 of the gut. The only other point of difference from the 

 current descriptions of the parasite which was noted was the 

 absence of the cuticnlar spines from the anterior portion of 

 the worm (not about the mouth, however); but these, accord- 

 ing to Dujardin, are very caducous. 



This was the second stork of the same species to die in 

 the Gardens since the establishment of the Laboratory of 

 Comparative Pathology with these parasites in the intestine. 

 Hoth birds were newly arrived in the Gardens, one dying 

 within twenty-four hours after its reception, and the other, 

 the host of the specimens examined, within seventy-two 

 hours. 



i'. I'aragonimus westermanni, (Kerbert) (Path. Mus., 39), 

 from the lung of a mouse, presented by Professor Katsurada, 

 of Okayama, Japan, is identical with the lung fluke of man 

 of the same part of the world. 



3. Opiftlhorchis sinensis, (Cobbold); three specimens, 

 one from the gall ducts of a human being and the others 

 from the gall ducts of dog and cat; presented by Professor 

 Katsurada, Okayama, Japan. 



4. Monostoma mutabile, Zeder (Path. Hist., 1132, 1654), 

 has been obtained in one instance from the subpleural air 

 spaces of a coot, Fulica americana (P. Z. G. Lab., 885), 

 and in a second case from the liver (this statement is made 

 with uncertainty in the records of the laboratory of the 

 Gardens; it is probably incorrect, and it is more likely that 

 the worms were in the subperitoneal airspaces) of a Carolina 

 rail, Porzaha Carolina (P. Z. G. Lab., 917). The data of 

 identification of both groups of the parasite conform with 

 published descriptions; but the ova were considerably 

 smaller than the measurements given by Dujardin and 

 repeatedly followed in later works upon parasitology. Du- 

 jardin (Hist. Nat. des Helminthes, p. 351; Paris, 1845) 

 states that the ova are 0.173 mm. in length and 0.084 mm. 

 in breadth; those obtained from the parasites of the first 



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