Dr. Cleland' has undertaken to examine the stomach con- 

 tents with a view to finding out the economic value of these 

 \)\nl< (from an ;igiicult urul standpoint) and has just pub- 

 lished some interesting information along these lines. We 

 are endeavouring conjointly to study our avian haematozoa, 

 while I am more particularly interesting myself in the 

 helminths, especially the cestodes. 



In addition to the parasites enumerated, there is now 

 at my disposal a goodly number of tapeworms from various 

 Australian birds, but as these are not yet worked up no 

 reference is being made to them in this paper. Many of 

 the following references! are also to be found in Linstow, 2 

 Fuhrmann," and Sweet. 4 



Order OASUARIIFORMES. 

 (A) Family DROM^EiDiE. 

 1. Dromaeus novae-hollundiae, Lath. (M. 1, H. 764). Emu. 

 Cestoda: — i. Davainea ausfro'n, Kral.l.»\ Dnnsk. Vidensk. 

 Selsk. skr. naturvid. math. Afd., (5) Vol. vm, I860, p. 

 343 (Australia); Krefft, Trans. EntnioL Soc., iV.S. Wales, 

 ii, 1871, p. 210; Johnston, Journ. Boy. Soc. A r .S. Wales, 

 xliii, 1909, p. xxix (New South Wales). 

 This species was very briefly described by Krabbe as 

 Taenia nustralis, his specimen coming from an Emu which 

 had died in the Copenhagen Zoological Gardens after having 

 been there a considerable time. This led Krabbe to remark 

 that the cestode might be proper to this bird, or that this 



1 Cleland, "Examination of Contents of Stomachs and Crops of Aus- 

 tralian Birds, Agric. Gazette, N. S. Wales, xxi, 1910, pp. 401-5 ; and in 

 the Emu, ix. April, 1910. 



■ Linstow, O. v., " Compendium der Helminthologie,"' 1878 ; Nachtrag 

 1889. 



3 Fuhrmann, O., Zoolog. Jahrb., Suppl. Bd. x, Heft 1, 1908. 



* Sweet, G., Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, xxi, (N.S.) 190* 



All works which I have not been able to consult, but whic 

 in this paper will be designated thus f. 



