SAXONY TO NJORO— PARASITE ON RAT 131 
FROM SAXONY TO NJORO 
East Africa Standard, May 29, 1911 
In the middle of February last an interesting find was made 
at the farm of Lord Delamere at Njoro. It appears that Mr. 
Wood found the body of a dead stork in a wheat field. To one 
of the legs of this stork a metal ring was attached which bore 
the inscription ‘ Vogelwarte Rossiten, 3491 Germania ’ 
(Bird Experimental station, Rositten, 3491, Germany). Mr. 
J. R. Wood took off this ring and sent it to the address inscribed 
thereon. The history of this stork is short. It appears that 
in the summer of 1910 the stork left the experimental station 
of Bitterfield, Saxony. These storks do not as a rule travel so 
far south as the Equator, for they usually follow the coast. 
The experimental station of Rositten has made many ex- 
periments on the migration of birds during the last few years 
and their efforts have attained a certain amount of success. Up 
to the present many of the following birds have been ex- 
perimented on : — Storks (Ciconia ciconia), crows ( Corvus 
cornix), sea-birds (Larus ridibundus, canus and fuscus ), 
carnivorous birds, waders, swallows, &c., &c. 
A CURIOUS PARASITE ON RAT 
(Editors) 
Some months ago a giant rat named Cricetomys gambianus 
was killed in the Provincial Commissioner’s garden at Nairobi 
and a curious insect was discovered on its body by Mr. Woosnam, 
who sent it to the Entomological Research Committee. 
It has now been identified by Mr. Guy K. Marshall, the 
secretary of the Entomological Research Committee, and it 
turns out to be Hemimerus talpoides (Walk). It is said to be 
entirely confined to the genus Cricetomys. It is an insect of 
considerable interest as it is viviparous, a rather unusual thing 
among insects ; its nearest relatives are the Cockroaches. 
