644 DISEASE IN WILD MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
{Otoes alaskamis) of the Pribiloff Islands. Its punctures 
are bloodless, being signalized instead by small edem- 
atous plaques in the intestinal mucosa. The animal we 
autopsied was a young California Hair Seal born in the 
Garden, and is singularly the only hair seal in which we 
have seen it. The natural habitat of the hair seal is the 
coast of California which means that the range of U. 
lucasi may extend farther southward than at first sus- 
pected. We have none of the northern variety. 
I point out two giraffe cases only because they are 
unique as to the organ (liver) affected. So far as I know, 
mature hookworms have never been reported from other 
organs than the intestines. 
From the prophylactic standpoint it will be advisable 
to have as little moist earth as possible, particularly 
sandy ground, in and around the enclosures for the above 
mentioned susceptible animals because it is in such soil 
that the earlier stages of the life cycle of the parasite 
are passed. 
We have never found any of the human hookworm 
species in our animals, but it must be recognized that 
transmission is possible to a certain degree. Anchylo stoma 
ceylanicum Lane (26) was found in man, cats, dogs, and 
a lion; Leiper(27) reports A. duodenale in a dog, and 
von Linstow(28) states that the latter parasite also 
occurs in the chimpanzee. 
Amebic Dysenteey in Monkeys. — We recently lost 
six monkeys in a small outbreak of this disease — four 
black spider monkeys {Ateles ater), a Pinche marmoset 
{Leontocebus edipus), and a woolly monkey (Lagothrix 
lagotricha). Except for non-characteristic looseness of 
stools, there were no symptoms until the usual terminal 
lethargy set in. Li\dng amebae were found in feces. At 
autopsy only the colon was found to be anatomically 
(26) Indian Med. Gaz., June, 1913, p. 217. 
(27) Jour. Trop. Med. Etc., London, 1913, XVI, p. 334. 
(28) Am. Med. Phila., V. 6 (16), 1903, p. 611. 
