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D. fusiformis, D. (including canuti, D.) — From Ringed Plover (^Egialitis 

 hiaticula), Aberlady Bay, Sept. 1884; Little Stint (Tringa irwrmta), and Curlew 

 Sandpiper, Aberlady Bay, Sept. 1885. 



Docophorus, sp. 1 — From Common Heron (Ardea cinerea), near Edinburgh, 

 August, one specimen. Closely allied to the preceding ; possibly the $ of Piaget's 

 D. produetus. 



D. pustulosus, N. — From Pomatorhine Skua (Stercorarius pomarinus), South 

 Queensferry, Oct. 1887. 



D. melanocephalus, N. — Specimens from Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), 

 Aberlady Bay, Oct. 1886, and Firth of Forth, Sept. 1 ( J05, agree best with the 

 description of this form. 



D. lari, D. — From Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus), and Kittiwake 

 (liissa tridactyla), Kincardine-on-Forth, Jan. 1885; Great Black-backed Gull 

 (L. mariaus), Gosford, Cramond, Dalmeny (1906); Herring-Gull (L. argentatus), 

 and Common Gull (L. canus), near Edinburgh; and Black-headed Gull (L. 

 ridibundus), Dunbar, Elie, and Loch Leven ; 1 also from an Arctic Skua (Stercorarius 

 crepida.tus), off Leith, Sept. 1907. 1 [From Lesser Black-backed Gull (L. fu sous), 

 near Fearnan, Loch Tay, May 1892.] 



D. celedoxus, N. — From Razorbill (Alca torda), Longniddry and Kincardine- 

 on-Forth, Jan. 1885, North Berwick, Jan. 1912 ; Cuillemot (Uria troile), 

 Aberlady, Jan. 1910; and Puffin (Fratercula arc(ica), off North Berwick, May 

 1908. 



D. merguli, D. — From Little Auk (Alle alle), Longniddry shore, Jan. 

 1885, Gullane Point, 9th March 1908, North Berwick, Lass wade, and Dalmeny, 

 Jan. 1912 ; [Orkney, Jan. 1885; St Andrews, Jan. 1912]. See Fig. 1, on p. 266. 



D. icterodes, N. — From Mallard (Anas boschas), Gosford Bay ; Wigeon 

 (Mareca penelope), Dunbar ; Pochard (Fuligula ferina), Duddingston Loch; Tufted 

 Duck (F. fuligula), Duddingston Loch, and Fife ; Scaup-Duck (F. marila), Dunbar ; 

 Common Scoter (Oidemia nigra), Musselburgh ; Barnacle-Goose (Branta leucopsis), 

 Kincardine-on-Forth, March 1888; and Goosander (Mergus merganser), Aberlady. 

 [Also from Grey Lag Goose (Anser ansei-), Newburgh-on-Tay, Fife, Oct. 1885.] 



D. colymbinus, D. — From Red-throated Diver (Golymbus septtntrionalis), off 

 Prestonpans, Dec. 1904 ; Black-throated Diver (C. arcticus), near Granton, Feb. 

 1912 (J. F. Cormack, determined by Rev. J. Waterston) ; and Goosander (ad. ^), 

 Kincardine-on-Forth, Feb. 1889, one fine specimen, which I refer to this species. 



Docophorus, 1 sp. n. — Two dried specimens from Manx Shearwater (Puffinus 

 anglorum), off North Berwick Sept. 1889 ; rather like, but quite distinct from, 

 D. colymbinus. Several species of Docophorus have been described from other 

 species of Shearwaters, so that mine is possibly not new ; perhaps it is Giebel's 

 insufficiently described D. coronatus from the Sooty Shearwater. Not having 

 access, however, to the literature containing some of the descriptions, I must 

 leave the final determination of my specimens over for the present. I have 

 provisionally named them D. aviator, sp. n. A figure, drawn from one of them, is 

 given on p. 268 (Fig. 4) — length about If mm. 



For Docophorus bassanse, D., see Lipeurus staphylinoides, D., of which I have 

 no doubt whatever it is the female. 



Nirmus fuscus, N. — From Rough-legged Buzzard, near Gorebridge, Nov. 1906; 

 and Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus), Fife, June last. 



N. rufus. N — From Merlin (Falco cesalon), Longniddry, Jan. 1885; Kestrel 

 ( /-'. liiiuiniruhis), Gosford, May 1890 ; and Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter nisus), Currie 

 anil Gosford. Doubtfully distinct from the preceding species (see Kellogg and 

 Chapman, " New Mallophaga," ill. , 1899, p. 85). 



1 Ami Little Cull (/,. minvtnx), Dunbar, 



