TIlOLltIJ:so.MK 1 LIKS. 



and others, iiL-arly oblifi-ud us to abandon onr 

 game, for portions of thv animal \v< i r idnnist im- 

 mediately covered with white magguts, (tlic 



btew flfei*' itt ilk mrntxy viripaf ous^^)* 

 and on the eonclusioa of zsxf hiri^^d^^omf we 



were glad to take our departure, and leave* tlie 

 carcase to myriads of tormentiii"' inseets that 

 were fast increasing from all directions. 1 oh- 



served i&e tsioka i3^&^ 4f the two female km^ 



them j and oould readity he knopked off ; it 3*e- 

 # iThe me^ofss 1)6 produced aliv^ ^<m the parent Ay 



by pj?essure upon the lower pui t of the Jibdonien ; the AH- 

 noyStnce of these flies is great during the summer seasort'j 

 depositing their progeny trpon efvery thinf!;, even blankets. 

 Specimens of natural history, in ihi- |)rL|iaration of" whicli 

 arsenical soap had been usedj the larva of tliis fly baa been de-* 

 posited, and found lying dead in duBierd,firom tbfe efffects of ttic 

 poison. Tills rcndefS(4ift^#Ction so dilficult during the hot season 

 of the year, and for some portions of the anatomy it is the only 

 time for examining them in the recent state. I bave even seen 

 gSlfiOer '^bldlftril^' fi.ixiuuite after it bas been killed. Dinjng my 

 juvirncy, a nuio a( out' ot the stations coui|)lauied to nie of a 

 dull pain in hit. ear, and a,s if something was moving in it; lie 



&a^M(lt «fk]r^^eep$»g in a hut a few ni^ta.|»«viQii$. By 

 pawing brine into the car, a large wliite mnggot ere[)t out, 

 and a£te]fw%id9^8ome smaller onevS. Tlie ear being well watched 

 <nit> lie svlered 196 j»o«% ph^HF itldoiivenieiice; m wimd or 

 (tbease of tbe ear appeared to exist 



