52 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



Docophorus mirus Kellogg and Chapman, Mallophaga from Birds of 

 California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 67, pi. V, fig. 7. 

 From Thyrothorus heivicMi s^nlurus (Palo Alto, California). 



Docophorus rutteri Kellogg, Mallophaga from Birds of Panama, Baja 

 California, and Alaska, in ISTew Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 12, pi. i. 

 fig. 3. 



From Parus atricapillus occidentalis (Kadiak Island, Alaska). 



Docophorus sialii Osborn, Insects Affecting Domestic Animals, 1896, 

 p. 220. 

 From Sialia sialis (Merriam, Colorado). 



Docophorus incisus Kellogg, New Mallophaga, II, 1896, p. 474, pi. lxv, 

 fig. 3. 



From Sialia sialis (Lawrence, Kansas) and Ampelis cedrorum 

 (Lawrence, Kansas). 



Genus NIRMUS Nitzseh. 



Nirmus Nitzsch, Germar's Mag. d. Eut., 1818, III, p. 291. 



Nirmus fuscomarginatus Denny, Monog. Anoplur. Brit., 1842, p. 136, pi. 

 X, fig. 1. — Kellogg and Chapman, var. americanus, Mallophaga 

 from Birds of California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 69, pi. v, 

 fig. 9. 



Variety americanus recorded by Kellogg and Chapman from 

 Colymbus nigricollis californicus, Gepphus eolumba, and Larus 

 argentatns smithsonianus (straggler?), all hosts from Bay of Monte- 

 rey, California. 



The species is recorded by European authors from Podiceps 

 auritus and P. cristatus. 



Nirmus pacificus Kellogg and Chapman, Mallophaga from Birds of 

 California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 70, pi. v, fig. 8. 



From Lwnda cirrhata, Gepphus columha, and Puffinus griseus 

 (Bay of Monterey, California). 



Nirmus maritimus Kellogg and Chapman, Mallophaga from Birds of 

 California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 72, pi. vi, fig. 1. 



From Gerorhinca monocerata, Ptyclioramphus aleuticus, Synthli- 

 horamphiis antiquus, and as straggler, probably, from Fulmarus 

 glacialis glupischa (all from Bay of Monterey, California). 



Nirmus citrinus Nitzsch (ed. Giebel), Zeitschr. f. ges. Naturwiss, 1866, 

 XXYIII, p. 378. — OSBOBN, Insects Affecting Domestic Animals, 

 1896, p. 224. 



Recorded by Osborn from Synthliboramphus antiquus Simorhyn- 

 chus cristatellus, Sim.pygmceus^ Sim. pusillus (Stejneger collection), 

 and Alletis (Alle) alle (Cassino collection) (North America). 



Eecorded by European writers from Alca, torda. 



