. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. August 1Q40 LEIGH: PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON PARASITES 189 birds and in 4 cases were so numerous or so large as to occlude the lumen of the ijreater part of the small intestine, the\ siiould not be overlooked as a factor in prairie chicken mortality. References in the literature to RaUlic- liii/i in wild birds for the most part do not '^ive any indication of pathogenicity. Gross (1930) reported finding heavy infestations of cestodes of the genus Raillietiiia in sharp-tailed and in one prairie cliicken but made no mention of the age or conditio
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. August 1Q40 LEIGH: PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON PARASITES 189 birds and in 4 cases were so numerous or so large as to occlude the lumen of the ijreater part of the small intestine, the\ siiould not be overlooked as a factor in prairie chicken mortality. References in the literature to RaUlic- liii/i in wild birds for the most part do not '^ive any indication of pathogenicity. Gross (1930) reported finding heavy infestations of cestodes of the genus Raillietiiia in sharp-tailed and in one prairie cliicken but made no mention of the age or condition of the hosts. Simon (1937) described Rtnllietina (Skrjabi/iiii) ceiitro- or only cause of death of 25 young quail raised by bantam foster parents. Passage of food stopped, the intestinal lining sloughed oft and some birds exhibited locomotor. % Heterakis galuna^ A Heterakis bonasae §SEUROCrRN€A COLINl , SUBULURA STRONCYLINA ® HyMENOL EPIS S P U Rhabdometra odiosa VNo Parasites Fig. 1. — Range of helminths of in Illi- nois, as indicateit by parasites fouml on 141 liirils collecleii in hunting season of 1936. ctrci from the sage grouse in Wyoming but gave no indication of degree of infesta- tion, age or condition of host. Jones (Stoddard 1932) gave some evi- dence of the pathogenicity of this genus of cestodes by reporting that Riiillietiini ti'/rti//onri was obser\ ed to be the principal. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Illinois. Natural History Survey Division. Urbana, State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Natural History Survey Division
Size: 1177px × 2123px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., booka, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectnaturalhistory
