Abstract
For the parasites which form the subject of the present communication, I am indebted to my friend Professor Morrison Watson, who found them in a male specimen ofProteles cristatus, Sparrman, of whose myology he has since published an account. Before entering upon a description of the entozoon, it may be allowable to say a word or two with respect to its host, which is not an animal of everyday occurrence. It was first described a little more than a century ago by Sparrman, the Swedish traveller, as occurring in South Africa, where it is known to the farmers as the “grey jackal”; he gave it the nameViverra cristata. The only point in his description of any present interest is that its stomach “ had nothing but ants in it, or to speak more properly, the whitetermites,” which might be a valuable hint for any one who had the will and opportunity to investigate the life history of the parasite before us.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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