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Nirmus vulgatus Kellogg. 
Specimens from the Shumagin fox sparrow, Passerella 
iliaca unalaschcensis (Monterey, Cal.). 
Oncophorus minutus Nitzsch. 
Specimen from the American coot, Fulica americana 
(Monterey, Cal.); also (straggler?) from the western blue- 
bird, Sialia mexicana occidentalis (Monterey, Cal.) 
Cncophorus bisetosus Piaget, var. californicus Kellogg and Chap- 
man. 
Specimens from the Virginia rail, Rallus virginianus 
(Monterey, Cal.) 
Lipeurus temporalis Nitzsch. 
Specimens from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata 
(Monterey, Cal.) 
Laemobothorium sp. 
Two specimens from the desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- 
verius deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) Until this genus is 
thoroughly revised we shall not attempt to make any species 
determination in it. 
Physostomum sp. 
One young specimen from Townsend warbler, Dendroica 
townsendi (Monterey, Cal.) 
Trinoton luridum Nitzsch. 
One specimen of this duck-infesting species, accredited, but 
certainly wrongly, to a desert sparrow hawk, Falco spar- 
vertus deserticolus (Monterey, Cal.) The insect probably 
came from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata. 
Trinoton lituratum Nitzsch. 
One specimen from the shoveller duck, Spatula clypeata, 
(Monterey, Cal.) 
Colpocephalum stictum n. sp. (Fig. 2). 
A single male specimen from Gallinago delicata, Wilson’s 
snipe (Monterey, Cal.) This is an elongated species with 
conspicuous blotches on head, thorax and abdomen. 
