I ENTOZOA. 105 



Order CORACIIFORMES. 



(A) Family PoDARGiDyE. 



46. Podargus strigoides, Lath. (M. 376, H. 137). The 

 tawny frogmouth (More-pork). 



Nematoda: — Filaria $p., Bancroft, Proc. Roy.Soc. Queensland, 

 vi, 1890, p. 62. (Queensland.) 

 Bancroft found ernbryo-filariao (Micofilnrin sp.) in the 

 blood. 



(B) Family Coraciid.e. 



47. Eurystomus pacificus, Lath. (syn. E. australis, Swain- 

 son). (M. 381, H. 411.) The dollar-bird or roller. 

 Nematoda -.—Filaria $p., Bancroft, I.e., p. 61. (Queensland.) 



Filarial embryos (Microfilaria) were seen in the blood. 



48. Dacclo gi/jris, IJ«»dd. (M. 380, II. 147). The laughing 

 jackass or brown kingfisher. 



I have seen a blood-tilm containing this sporozoan. 



Trematoda:— f/emistmnnm /riViw^/ar*. Johnston, (S.J.) Proc. 



Cestoda: — Simihmcinu* dar«hnis, Johnston, (T. H.), Rec. 

 Austr. Mus., vii. 1900, p. 246. (N.S. Wales.) 



49. Halcyon (Suui'opluiyu) smmtphuya, Gould. A kingfisher 

 Trematoda i—Distomum porrectum, Braun., Centr. f. Bakt., 



I, Orig, xxv, 18!)9, p. 714. (Bismarck Archipelago). 



50. Halcyon (Sauropatis) sanctus, Vig. and Horsf. (M. 



Acanthocephala : — Echinorhynchus horridus, Linstow, Arch. 



f. Naturg., lxiii, 1897, p. iMJO. (Bismarck Archipelago.) 



I have seen ;i specimen ot Kciiint>rlnjucluts sp. taken from 



this host in New South Wales, but have not examined it 



sufficiently to be able to compare it with E. horvidus. 



