ON AUSTRALIAN AVIAN ENTOZOA. 1 1 9 



Mr. Thos. Steel of Sydney kindly forwarded me a chicken 

 harbouring abundance of nematodes which I have not yet 

 been able to identify specifically. 



vi. Oxi/uris .</'., IVrrie, /.<■., p. N22. (N.S.W.) 

 This reference should be to Heterakis papulosa. 



vii. Oxi/s/'imra mmisuni, Col>U>lcl (swi. S/jl 'rn^h-ra nnmerezii, 



Megnin ), Tryon, Ann. Reft. Entomologist, etc., Dept. 



Agr. Q'land, 1907-8, p. 88 ; Dodd, I.e., 1908-9, p. 20 etc. 



(Queensland); Johnston, Journ. Proc. Hoy. Soc. N.S.W., 



1909, p. xv. (Northern N.S.W.) 



This tiny worm was formerly known as Mansou's eye 



worm, Filaria mausoiii. Ransom 1 in 1901, showed that it 



belonged to the genus Oxyapirura. 



vii. Syngnmus travlu-a/h, Siebold, Brown, Ayr. Journ. Vict., 

 ii, 1904, p. 73, p. 175 (Victoria?). Johnston, I.e., xliii, 

 1909, p. xv (N.S.W.) 

 The "gape-worm" of poultry appears to be rare in 

 Australia. It lives in the trachea, firmly attached to the 

 mucosa. Since the male remains permanently attached to 

 the female, the parasite has often been termed the "forked 

 worm." Mr. E. A. Le Souef, Curator of the Zoological 

 Gardens, Perth, West Australia, informed me that this 

 parasite occurs in fowls and turkeys in that State, 

 vii. Dispharagns nasutus, Rud. (Sydney.) 

 This filariid was collected by me from the stomach of a 

 fowl sent by Mr. T. Steel. It has not been previously 

 recorded from Australia. 



Acarida:— i. Acarns depilis, Brown, Brit. Med. Journ. u 



1897, p. 1675 (Victoria, South Australia). 



This acarid has been recorded from the subcutaneous 



tissue of poultry. The original description is extremely 



scanty, the name A. depilis being practically a nomen 



1 Ransom, " L>,.pt. Agrir. U.S.A. Bureau of Animal Industry," Ball, 60, 



