A LIST OF THE BITING LICE (MALLOPHAGA) TAKEN EEOM 

 BIEDS AND MAMMALS OF NOETH AMEEIOA. 



By Vernon L. Kellogg, M. S., 



Professor of Entomology, Leland Stanford Junior University. 



Witbin the last few years a beginning in the systematic study of the 

 North American Mallophaga has been made. This study has pro- 

 gressed sufficiently to make it worth while to prepare a list of the Mal- 

 lophaga so far recorded as having been collected from birds and 

 mammals found in North America.^ By this is meant the record of col- 

 lection actually made from American host specimens, and not from host 

 species common to both Europe and America, from which parasites are 

 as yet recorded only from European host specimens. Where Mal- 

 lophaga have been found common to American and Euroj)ean hosts, the 

 foreign as well as the native hosts are given. As the synonymy for 

 the species of Mallophaga found on American hosts has been given in 

 both Professor Osborn's and my own papers (these papers including 

 practically all the American records), I have not repeated the synonymy 

 in the list. All the American records as originally published are 

 included in the list, no attempt having been made to correct the 

 synonymy. Probably not more than half a dozen species in the list are 

 liable to such correction. The American specimens referred to species 

 originally found on European hosts have been so referred on the 

 authority of the original descriptions and illustrations of European 

 authors. The great importance of the correctness of these determina- 

 tions, because of the interesting problems in distribution presented by 

 this specific identity of European and American specimens, led me to 

 take to Europe a large number of American specimens for the sake of 

 comparison with the European types. This comparison revealed the 

 fact that these determinations of the identity of the American speci- 

 mens with European species can be relied on. 



In addition to the list of parasites with hosts there is given also a 

 list of hosts with parasites, so that reference to the American records 

 can be readily made from either parasite or host. Students beginning 



^Some birds from Panama are included in this list. ''North America," according 

 to the American Ornithologists' Union check list, "includes the continent of North 

 America north of the present United States and Mexican boundary, and Greenland 

 and the peninsula of Lower California, with the islands naturally belonging 

 thereto." 



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