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FAUNAE OF NESTS OF THE MAGPIE AND CROW IN WESTERN MONTANA*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

WM. L. Jellison
Affiliation:
United States Public Health Service, Hamilton, Montana
Cornelius B. Philip
Affiliation:
United States Public Health Service, Hamilton, Montana

Extract

Incidental to the collecting of ticks and other animal parasites in the Bitterroot Valley of Southwestern Montana, a number of nests of magpies. Pica pica hudsonicus, and a nest of the common crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos, were examined particularly for blood sucking dipterous larvae, Protocalliphora spp.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1933

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