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given. As a number of other parasites collected from 

 various birds in New Guinea are described in the same 

 paper, it may be assumed that Papua was the locality from 

 which this cestode was obtained. 



No parasites have, as far as I knov 

 pigeons (native) from the mainland < 



Order RALLIFORMES. 



Family Rallid.e. 

 9. Porphyria melanonotus, Temm., (M. 62, H. 591). The 

 Bald Coot. 



Trematoda:— Distomum sp., Krefft, Trans. Entomol. Soc. A".S. 

 Wales, II, 1871, p. 213. (N.8. Wales or Queensland.) 



Order PODICIPEDIDIFORMES. 



10. Podicipes novaehollandiae, Steph. (M. 0.1, 11. 739). 

 The Black-throated Grebe. 

 Cestoda,— i. Taenia novaehollandiae, Krefft, I.e., p. 216. 



ii. Taenia parado.ca, K r-fft, /.<•., p. 2 1 7. (New South Wales 

 or Queensland.) 

 These two parasites were very imperfectly described and 

 roughly figured by Krefft. Neither belongs to the genus 

 Taenia, but until the types have been re-examined, their 

 systematic position is not known. Krefft described the 

 forms as infesting the intestine of the little grebe Podiceps 

 unstntlis. The generic name is evidently meant for Podt- 

 cipes. I cannot find any reference to the specific name. 

 This difficulty seems to have occurred to Professor Fuhr- 

 mann, 1 who lists the tapeworms under Lophaelliia cristate^ 

 Linn., (M. G7, H. 741) the tippet-grebe. Mr. A. J. North 

 kindly informed me that Krefft's P. austral is is really P. 



1 Fuhrmann, •« Die Cestoden der 70gel," Socio*. /«*+., Buppl. Bd t. 



Heft 1, 1908, p. 133. 



