Volume VII 
JUKE, 1914 
No. 2 
THE TREMATODE PARASITES OF NORTH 
QUEENSLAND. II. PARASITES OF BIRDS. 
By WILLIAM NICOLL, M.A., D.Sc., M.D. 
(Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville, Queensland.) 
(With Plates VI and VII.) 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Introduction ........... 105 
Distomata ........... 106 
Opisthorchiidae ......... 106 
Orchipedum ... . . . . 108 
Echinostomidae ......... 110 
Dierocoeliidae . . . . . . . . . 118 
Clinostomidae .......... 123 
Monostomata.124 
Cyclocoeliidae ..... ..... 124 
Notocotylidae .......... 125 
References ........... 125 
In the first part of this paper fifteen species were described, eight of 
which were from birds. In the present part an additional fifteen are 
dealt with. 
During the course of the past year one hundred and fourteen birds 
belonging to fifty different species were examined. Of these, seventy- 
seven were found to be infected with parasitic worms. The latter 
comprise a considerable variety of forms and number close upon a 
hundred different species. 
Although, however, there is a great wealth of parasitic material, 
it does not display much that is of outstanding interest or peculiarly 
Australian. This is not altogether surprising in view of the fact that a 
considerable number of Australian birds are migrants. Their parasites 
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