122 T. H. JOHNSTON. 



and Fel. ? The differences between P. praecox and our 

 forms were thought by us to be of sufficient importance to 

 lustily the separation of the latter as a different species 

 P. passer is. 



Cestoda : — Monopylidium passerinum, Fuhrm., Johnston, 



Agric. Gaz. N.S. W., xx, 1909, p. 584 ; Journ. Roy. Soc. 



N.S.W., xliii, 1909, p. 405 ; Jour. Trop. Vet. Set., v. 



1910, pp. 353, 357; Johnston and Cleland, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N.S.W., xxxiv, 1909, p. 507 (N.S.W.). 



96. Hturnus vulgaris, Linn. The starling. 



This bird is now very common in the settled districts of 

 New South Wales. 



Cestoda -.—Hymenolepis farcim inosa, Goeze. 



Some specimens forwarded to me by Mr. S. J. Johnston 

 of the Biology Department, Sydney University, as well as 

 others collected by Dr. Cleland at Berry, belong to the 

 above species. (Sydney, Berry, N.S. Wales.) 



97. Merula merula, Linn. (syn. Tardus mernhi, Linn.) The 

 blackbird. 



This bird has become well established in South and South- 

 eastern Australia. 



Cestoda: — Hymenolepis serpentulus, Schrank. 



This parasite was identified from material collected by 

 Dr. Cleland, near Adelaide (South Australia). 



98. Rhinochetus jubatus, Verr. and Des Murs. The Kagu. 

 This is not an Australian bird, since it lives only in New 



Caledonia. Mr. H. E. Finckh, of Mosman, Sydney, recently 

 forwarded me a dead specimen of this rare bird, and from 

 its intestine I have obtained numerous very small cestodes 

 about 4 mm. long, with well develop. m1 suekers and an 

 armed rostellum and alternating genitalia. These have 

 been provisionally determined as Aiuorhot, tenia xp., though 

 the genital organs alternate somewhat irregularly. 



Addendum:— The record of Holoxtomwn sp. from the gull and 

 jackass mentioned by David (Jour. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S W., XXXIV, 

 1900, p. xx.) evidently refers to Hohttomum hiilii from Larus 

 novae-hollandiae and ffemintoinum triangulare from Daceh gigas, 

 respectively, (vide supra). 



