322 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 
INTERNAL PARASITES OF POULTRY. 
The following species should be added to the list on page 
179, Report for 1870. 
CESTODES. 
Tenia megalops Nitzsch. Intestine of ducks. 
T. gracilis Rud. &“ “ee 
T. trilineata Batsch. “ “« « 
T. coronula Dujardin. “ “«  & 
T. echinococcus? A species allied to or identical with the com- 
mon echinococcus has been found in the encysted state in the lungs of 
the turkey. 
TREMATODES. 
Monostomum attenuatum Rud. Intestines and czecum of geese. 
Distoma cuneatum Rud. In the oviduct of a pea-hen. 
D. echiniferum La Val. Intestines of ducks, pigeons, &c. 
D. armatum Molin. Intestines and cecum of hens. 
NEMATODES. 
Ascaris gibbosa Rud. Intestines of hens. 
A. dispar Schrank. Intestines of geese. 
A. vesicularis Frolich. Large intestines and cecum of hens, pea- 
cock, and turkey. & 
Filaria anatis Rud. Heart of ducks. 
Sptroptera nasuta Rud. Crop of hens. 
S. tricolor Diesing. Tubercles in crop of ducks. 
Tricosomum brevicolle Rud. Intestines and cecum of geese and 
ducks. : 
T. longicolle Rud. Large intestine and cecum of hens, geese, &e. 
TL. tenuisstmum Dies. Large intestine of pigeons. 
Eustrongylus tubifexc. CXsophagus and crop, often in tubercles, in 
ducks and various other aquatic birds. 
Of those previously enumerated as found in ducks and geese, the 
following have also been found in hens: Yenta malleus Goeze, WVoto- 
cotyle triserialis Diesing (same as Monostomum triseriale), Distoma 
ovatum Rud. Ascaris inflexa Rud. is found in the intestines of 
‘ducks as well as hens. 
