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might have been a case of "accidental" infection during 

 its stay in the Gardens. 



Blanchard 1 recognised from Krabbe's figures that this 

 parasite belonged to the genus Davainca. Krefft merely 

 mentioned the worm. I formally recorded its occurrence 

 in this host in New South Wales, and have recently 

 examined specimens of D. australis collected from the 

 intestine of an Emu in the Strelley River district (North- 

 west of West Australia) by Dr. J. B. Cleland. 



ii. Cotugnia collini, Fuhrmann, Cent. /. Bakt., I, Orig., xlix, 

 1909, p. 116. 

 This parasite was collected in Eastern Australia. 

 (B) Family Casuariid.e. 



2. Casuarius casuarius, Linn. (Syn. ('. anient us, Bonn.) 

 Cassowary. 



This species does not live on the mainland, but is 

 restricted to New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The 

 Australian representative is C. australis, Wall. 



Neraatoda: — Sclrrasftnunm ( •■'■. Megnin,f 



Jonrn. d. VAnat. et Physiol., Paris, xx, 1884, p. 455— 

 found in the trachea, (locality 1) 



Order COLUMBIFORMES. 



(A) Family Columbid.k. 



3. Macropygia nujrirostris, Salvad. 



Nematoda: — Heterakis australis, Von Linstow, Arch. f. 

 Naturg., lxiii, 1897, p. 285. (Bismarck Archipelago). 



(B) Family Treronid.e. 



4. CarpophiKjti rnmrijcki, Cass. A fruit-eating Pigeon. 

 Cestoda: — Cittotaenia Kuvaria, Shipley, " Entozoa " in 



Willey's " Zoological Results," v, 1900, p. 552. (New 



1 Blanchard. Mem. 8oc. Zool., France, iv, 1891, p. 434. 



