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the study of the Mallophaga will soon discover the advantage of work- 

 ing from the basis of known host. 



It is hoped that the list may serve as a convenient basis for the study 

 of the phenomena of the distribution of the Mallophaga, one of the 

 most interesting phases of the study of this group of insects. 



Types and cotypes of my own and of Osborn's are now deposited in 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



There are very few records in the European literature of the Mallo- 

 phaga of specimens taken from North American hosts. In very rare 

 instances specimens have been taken from the skin of some North 

 American bird in the collection of some European museum, or parasites 

 have been collected in zoological gardens from representatives of some 

 bird s]3ecies peculiar to North America. For example, Piaget col- 

 lected two species of Mallophaga from specimens of the Bob White 

 [Colinus virginianus) and California Cartridge {Gallipepla californica) 

 in the zoological garden at Rotterdam. I have since found both of 

 these species of Mallophaga on the same hosts in their native habitat. 

 All of these records are referred to in the list. The following are the 

 American papers containing the records upon which the list is based. 

 For an extended bibliography of the foreign and American literature 

 of the Mallophaga see Osborn "^ and Kellogg.^ 



Packard A. S. Certain Parasitic Insects, American Naturalist, 1870, IV, p. 83, ill. 



Leidy, J. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1878, p. 100. 



Osborn, Herbert. Notes on Mallophaga and Pediculidse, Canadian Entomologist, 

 1884, XII, p. 197. 

 The Pediculi and Mallophaga Infesting Man and the Lower Animals, Bull. No. 



7, Div. of Ent., U. S. Dept. of Agric, 1891. 

 Insects Aifecting Domestic Animals, Bull. No. 5, new ser., Div. of Ent., U. S. 

 Dept. of Agric, 1896. 



Kellogg, V. L. New Mallophaga, I (Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Sea- 

 side Laboratory, IV, 1896). 

 New Mallophaga, II (Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Labo- 

 ratory, VII, 1896). 

 Mallophaga from Birds of Panama, Baja California, and Alaska, in New Mallo- 

 phaga, III (Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, 

 XIX, 1899). 



Kellogg, V. L., and Chapman, B. L. Mallophaga from Birds of California, in New 

 Mallophaga, III (Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Labora- 

 tory, XIX, 1899). 



Chapman, Bertha L. Two New Species of Trichodectes (Mallophaga). Entomologi- 

 cal News, 1897, VIII, p. 185, pi. ix. 



CLASSIFICATION AND KEYS. 



The position of the Mallophaga among insects is discussed briefly in 

 my New Mallophaga.^ The latest classification of insects assigns to the 

 Mallophaga the position of an independent order. The affinities of the 



' Insects Affecting Domestic Animals, Bull. No. 5, new ser., 1896, Div. of Ent., U. S. 

 Dept. of Agric, p. 292. 

 -New Mallophaga, I, 1896, pp. 35, 40. « Volume 1, 1896, pp. 57-59. 



