Internal Parasites Recorded from Australian Birds

Abstract

In a paper, “ On Australian Avian Entozoa,” read before the Royal Society of New South Wales (June, 19x0), I gave a list of the internal parasites known to infest Australian birds, including introduced hosts, such as domesticated birds, Sparrows, &c., and also the literature referring to their occurrence. In the present list all records which do not refer to hosts coming from Australian native birds, either in Australia or in various Zoological Gardens, are rejected. I have, therefore, excluded a large number of hosts and records included in the former paper—viz., those from the Southern Ocean and from New Guinea and adjacent islands. In cases where the entozoa have been collected from specimens in foreign Zoological Gardens, the locality has been indicated in this census. When stated in the original record, the name of the State is given, thus—New South Wales (N.S.W.), Victoria (V.), South Australia (S.A.), Eastern Australia (E.A.), South-West Australia (S.W.A.), North-West Australia (N.W.A.), Southern Queensland, i.e., south of Rockhampton (S.Q.), Northern Queensland (N.Q.) The great majority of the records refer to specimens collected in New South Wales and Queensland, while very few come from Victoria, and none, as far as I know, from Tasmania.