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Phalacrooorax liypoleuous (No. 222). — In three of twelve birds 

 examined in Soutli Australia in March, 1917, parasitic worms 

 were noted by Capt. S. A. White (Emu, April, 1918, pp. 214, 

 215). Ciapt. White exhibited two tubes of parasitic worms — 

 one from a cormorant's stomacb, the other from the thick 

 coating of fat covering the abdomen — at a meeting of the 

 Royal Society of South Australia (Trans., etc., 1916, p. 590). 



Ninox rufa (No. 269). — Dr. MacGillivray found parasites under 

 the skin of the head and orbit, N. Queensland (Emu. April, 

 1918, p. 186). 



Podargus marmoratus (C.L. 339) (Micropodargus ocellatus mar- 

 moratus). — Tapeworm in subcutaneous tissue of the abdomen, 

 N. Queensland, MacGillivray (Emu, April, 1918, p. 189). 

 H. L. Whit^, in "North Australian Birds observed by Wm. 



McLennan" (Emu, xvi., pt. iv., pp. 205-230), mentions the 



finding of tho following parasites : — 



Turnix castanota (No, 14). — Small worms in chest, abdominal 

 cavity, and eye socket. King River. 



Falco lunulatus (No, 258). — Tapeworms in a mass of yellow pus, 

 and a growth containing pus and worms on the left leg. Very 

 small worms in the eye socket and membrane. A short, thick, 

 round worm in the abdominal cavity, A mass of long, thin, 

 round worms over the kidneys and testes ; the testes almost 

 totally destroyed. Some of the worms over 6 ins. long. Morn- 

 ington Island, July, 1915. 



Ninox boobook (No, 263), — A mass of worms in the inflamed fibrous 

 membrane on the skull between the eyes ; two more in the left 

 eye socket and one in the abdominal cavity. 



Ninox connivens (No. 267). — Several worms under the skin of the 

 body and legs, 



Ninox rufa (No. 269), — Numerous tapeworms under the skin of 

 the legs, A round worm in the left eye. 



Trichoglossus rubritorques (No, 275). — A number of large tape- 

 worms in the abdominal cavity. 



Halcyon sanctus (No, 349), — Two large and two small worms in the 

 neck. One large worm in the abdominal cavity. 



Graucalus melanops (No, 457). — Small worms in the nictitating 

 membrane. Large tapeworms in the intestine. 



Graucalus hypoleucus (No, 458). — Worms under the skin of the 

 thighs, 



Colluricincla brunnea (No, 568), — Small worms in the eye membi*ane 

 and larger ones in the liver. King River. 



Colluricincla woodwardi (No, 571), — Worms under the skin. 

 King River, 



Philemon sordidus (No. 685a), — A number of worms in the 

 abdominal cavity. 



Oriolus flavicinctus (No, 713). — Two small worms in the abdominal 

 cavity, 



Pt. II, — Parasites of Australian Birds that have come 



UNDER THE WRITER'S NOTICE. 



I. Cestodes. 



Chalcophaps ohrysochlora (No. 29), — Stradbroke Island, Q'land, 



Sept,, 1919, 

 Phaps elegans (No. 31). — Waitpinga, Encounter Bay, Jan., 1922 



