8o BRunKLVX INSTITL'Te: MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 4. 
MALLOPHAGA FROM BIRDS OF THE SOUTH 
ATLANTIC. 
By Vernon L,. Kellogg, 
St.WI.iKI, rxiVKHSITY, CAIJiriRXIA. 
A sniall 1)iU interest ini;- collection of Malloi)hai^-a taken 
from ])ir(ls, mostI\- slricll\- niarilinie, of the Tropical ajid v^onth 
Atlantic in the \-icinily of South C.eor^ia, Fernando Xoronha, 
Trinidad, and the Cai)e \erde Islands, has been put into my 
hands for deternnnation hy Mr. Chas. Schaeffer of the 
C'enlr.il .Musenni of the i'.rookhn institute of Arts and 
Sciences. The birds were collecte.! by .Mr. Robert C. Murphy 
on his South ('.eor-ia Island Jvxiiedition in K)!-'-!^ and de- 
termined b\- him. The numbers preceded by the initials 
"\\. C. S\.," which 1 have used in connection with the birds' 
n.ames, indicate the collector's field numbers, each one referriiiL;' 
to Mallophai;;! from a sin,L;le bird specimen, I'weniN-five 
s])ccies of birds re]>resenled by twenty-eii^-ht specimens m.ake 
up the host list, and twenty species of ?\lallo]»hasa, of which 
four are new. and are here described, compose the list of 
]),ar,asites. 
.\mon-- the s])ecies of si)ecial interest, besides the four 
new ones, is especialK to be noted the si)ecies named Xii-iiius 
srh'siis bv (nebel in iX;() ( .\nn. Ma-'. Xat. Hist., Vol. 17, p. 
3SS, ;ind more fulb' described by him and figured in ]><J*) in 
I'hil. Trans. Roy. Soc, \'ol. idS, extra vol. p|). 253-254, pi. 
.\1\', li.L^-. iS). ('.iebel had six s])ecimens, probably all females, 
colK'cled from rclcraiii'idcs nriiiatri.v at Kero-uelen Td. in 
1S74 b\- the famous luiL^lish Transit of \'enus Expedition of 
which the Rev. A. Iv IvUon was naturalist. It was the col- 
lections made 1)V Eaton on this exi)edition which yielded such 
a wealth of interesting- aberrant new forms of insects and 
olher animals and plants ,as to make the wild little volcanic 
isl.nid of Ixerouelen. a famous one to .all naturalists. A male 
specimen, in Mr. Mur]ih\'s collection, of this curious 
.Malloi)ha-,an from its e(|ually curious host { J'clccaiiniilcs ) 
re\-e:ds it to be a l.ij'ciinis and not a X inn lis. and as the 
