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Notes on a Collection of Bird Fleas from Grand Manah, New Brunswick1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Allen H. Benton  and
Vaughnda Shatrau
Allen H. Benton
Affiliation:
State University of New York College at Albany, Albany, New York
Vaughnda Shatrau
Affiliation:
State University of New York College at Albany, Albany, New York
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Near Grand Manan Island, in the Ray of Fundy and about 20 miles from the coast of Maine and 30 miles from Nova Scotia, lie Kent Island and Hay Island. During the summer of 1961, we secured collections of bird nests from these islands so as to study the flea fauna. Nests of the following species were collected: Larus argentatus, herring gull; Somateria mollissima, common eider; Corvus brachyrhynchos, crow; Oceanodroma leucorhoa, Leach's petrel; Riparia r. riparia, bank swallow; Hirundo rustica erythrogaster, barn swallow; Petrochelidon pyrrhonota albifrons, cliff swallow; Iridoprocne bicolor, tree swallow; and Passerculus sondwichensis, savannah sparrow. The nests of herring gulls, eiders, crows, and Leach's petrels proved to be without fleas, but from the other nests 797 fleas were collected.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 94 , Issue 7 , July 1962 , pp. 743 - 745
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1962

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