632 DISEASE IN WILD MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
Table 24 (Continued). 
Mammalia 
Animal 
It 
1^ 
■si 
a a 
a 
S 
u 
0) 
Remarks 
Edentata 
16 
10 
175 
84 
70 
2 
2 
45 
40 

12.5 
20. 
26. 
48. 
0. 
Armadillos 
Marsupialia 
Didelphyidae 
Common Opossum. . . . 
Didelphys virgini- 
ana 
Macropodidae 
Kangaroos and walla- 
bies 
Physaloptera, 38; oxyuris, 
5; cestodes, 5; nema- 
todes in lungs, 3; cysts 
in peritoneal areolar tis- 
sue, 2; trematodes in 
ileum, 1. 
Passeres 
Corvidse 
Common Crow 
Corvus brachyrhyn- 
chos brachyrhyn- 
chos 
Magpies 
16 
28 
41 
35 
63 
25 
24 
AVES 
7 
18 
22 
12 
19 
8 
44. ] 
64. J 
55. 
33. 
30. 
33. 
Tropidocerca and occa- 
sional intestinal cesto- 
des. Syngamus in crows . 
Few filaria. 
Javs 
Peri pro ventricular filaria, 
strongylus. 
There is a striking coasis- 
tency of infestment in 
the different members of 
Corvidaj both as regards 
degree of infestment and 
species of parasite pres- 
ent. 
Periproventricular filaria 
largely. 
Periproventricular filaria 
largely. 
Thrushes and Robins. 
None in American 
thrushes, one in a 
robin. 
Finches. Not examined 
closely at autopsy, but 
there is a scattering of 
periproventricular fila- 
ria and intestinal ces- 
todes through most of 
the species. 
Were free from parasites. 
Pies, choughs, etc 
Sturnidse 
Starhngs 
Turdidse 
Canaries 
