Note on Mallophaga from the Little Auk ; &c. 273 



N. fuscomarginatus, D. (podicepis, D. = 9) — From Little Grebe (Podiceps 

 Jiuviatilis), near Dunbar, April 1911, Gladhouse Reservoir, June, Penicuik, 

 Aug.; and Eared Grebe (P. nigricollis), Barnsness lighthouse, Oct. 1911 ; [also 

 from Slavonian Grebe {P. auritus), Orkney, Jan. 1885]. 



Oncophorus attenuatus, N. — From Corn-Crake (Crex crex), near Edinburgh, 

 Oct. 1907 ; and Isle of May, August last. 



0. minutus, N. (1 Nirmus fulicce, D.+JV. cuspidatus, D.) — From Moorhen 

 {Gallinula chloropus), Dalkeith, Feb. ; and Coot {Fulica atra), Gosford, May 1890. 



Goniocotes compar, N. — From Wood-Pigeon (Columba palumbus), Fife, 

 Jan. 1905, and Dunipace, Stirlingshire, Sept. 1911. 



Goniodes dispar, 1ST. — From Partridge (Perdix perdix), near Edinburgh, 

 Dec. 1907. 



G. tetraonis, D. ( 1 heteroceros, N.) — From Red Grouse, Pentland Hills, 

 April 1889 and Sept. 1906, Denny Hills, and Kinross; and Black Grouse (Tetrao 

 tetrix), Gorebridge, Nov. 1906, and Dunipace, Sept. 



G. chelicornis, N. — From Capercaillie, Dunblane, Nov. 1905, Cobbinshaw, 

 Nov. 1906, Touch near Stirling, Dec. 1907, Callander, [Comrie, and Dunkeld]. 

 Larger and paler than the preceding ; but the two are very closely related. 



G. damicornis, N. — -From Wood-Pigeon, near Markinch, June 1911, and 

 Dunipace, Feb. 1912. Colinton (Rev. J. Waterston). 



G. dissimilis, N. — From feather of Domestic Fowl (Gallus domesticios), in a 

 Martin's nest, Kennetpans, Kincardine-on- Forth, Aug. 1908 (sent to me by 

 Rev. J. Waterston). 



G. colchicus, D. — From Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Tynehead, Dec. 1907, 

 Dunipace [and Longformacus]. 



Lipeurus quadripustulatus, N. — From Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), 

 near Dunbar, Sept. 1886, a single specimen. 



L. baculus, N. — From Wood-Pigeon, East Fife, Feb. 1905; Stock Dove 

 (Columba cenas), Gosford, Jan. 1886 ; and Domestic Pigeon (C. domestica), 

 Edinburgh, Dalkeith, Tyninghame, and Dunipace. 



L. pelagicus, D. (1 subangxisticeps, P.) — One? from Storm Petrel (Thalassidroma 

 pelagica), North Berwick, July 1910, and one £, which seems to me to belong to 

 the same species, from Manx Shearwater, off North Berwick, Sept. 1887. 



L. leucopygus, N. — One $ from Tawny Owl, Dalmeny, March 1892. Doubtless 

 a straggler, the proper host of the species being the Heron, from which bird I 

 have taken a number this year (locality East Lothian). 



L. luridus, N. — One specimen from Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana). Dunbar, 

 Aug. 1901. 



L. longicorms, P. — From Cormorant, Gullane Bay, Oct. 1906. 



L. staphylinoides, D. (pullatus, P.; Docophorus bassance, D. = ? and juv.) — 

 Adults of both sexes and juveniles from Gannet (Sula bassana), Firth of Forth, 

 Aug. 1887, May and Aug. 1906, and Bass Rock, June 1910. Some years ago 

 when recording this species from St Kilda (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, 1906, p. 87), 1 

 I alluded to the resemblance of the females to Denny's figure of his Docophorus 

 bassanai. I felt then that the latter was nothing more than the female and 

 immature state of his L. staphylinoides, and the examination of further material 

 has convinced me that this is so. Mr Waterston has reached the same conclusion. 

 With one exception, Denny referred all the females he had seen to D. bassanai, 



1 The unidentified Lipeurus from a St Kilda gannet, mentioned by me in the same paper, 

 is, Mr Waterston considers, a male of L. mutabilis, P., a species attached to the Fulmar 

 Petrel (Fulmarus glacialis). Its occurrence on the gannet must he regarded as purely 

 accidental. I may mention that I possess three females of L. mutabilis taken off a Fulmar 

 from Sutherland last September. The same Fulmar yielded a few specimens of what I 

 identify as Menopon brevifimbriatum, P. 



