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perhaps be reinfested from its own bowel dejections and that of 

 its fellows, that may be suffering from the worm. 



Other Parasites. Cats like dogs take in various parasites of 

 their prey, which may be found alive in the stomach, but cannot 

 be looked on as real parasites of the cat. This possibly explains 

 the physaloptera found by Lutz in a cat in Brazil, as it does the 

 heterakis found by Neumann. Both are parasites of fowls. Yet 

 Physaloptera Digitata lives in the stomach of the puma (fills con- 

 color) of Brazil. 



Strongylus Strigosus of the Stomach of the Rabbit. 

 Body cylindroid, attenuated, blood red, with about 50 longitu- 

 dinal lines from which it derives its name (.striped strongle). 

 Male 33^ to 7 lines in length, caudal membrane campanihform, 

 two spicula with brush-like terminations. Female 4^^ to 9 lines 

 in length, vulva near the posterior tenth of the body. 



Lesions. These have been found by thousands in the stomach 

 of warren rabbits, sucking the blood and giving rise to a most 

 deistructive epizootic marked chiefly by ansemia, emaciation and 

 marasmus. They must be treated by vermifuges (areca nut), 

 separation of infested, cleansing or changing of warrens and runs. 



PARASITES IN THE STOMACHS OF BIRDS. 



Dispharagus Nasutus : Large papillae on sides of mouth ; constriction in 

 pharynx ; 2 to 3 lines long ; in wall of gizzard, hen and sparrow. Symp- 

 toms : Dulness, dejection, but good appetite. Treatment : Vermifuges. 

 Spiroptera Ham,ulosa in tumors on gizzard of chicken. Physalopterus 

 Truncatus in proventriculus of chicken ; Brazil. Tropisurus Inflatus and 

 Trap. Fissispinus in submucous cysts in proventriculus of duck. Histri- 

 chis Tricolor, with front of body spinous, and back, intestine and gullet 

 three colors ; in proventriculus. Strongylus Nodularis, with two buccal 

 vesicular nodules and three teeth ; in mucosa of proventriculus, gizzard and 

 duodenum of goose. Histrichis Pachycephalus in nodules of the proventri- 

 culus ; swan. 



Dispharagus Nasutus of Chickens. (I^arge nosed). This 

 parasite is named from the division of the pharynx in two cavi- 

 ties and from the nose-like projection forward of two papillae on 

 each side of the mouth in the female. The male is about two 

 lines long, the female three lines, and both live in the wall of the 

 gizzard of hen and sparrow. 



