Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 6() 1961
Mallophaga from Birds Associated with the Water Environment in Poland
Abstract:
The Mallophaga examined during the course of the enquiry were collected from birds in the Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Warszawa, Białystok, Olsztyn, Gdańsk and Koszalin Provinces in the years 1950-1959. They were taken from the birds representing 13 families, which I numbered according to the sequence assumed by Sokołowski (1958). Only Strigidae and Falconidae are placed at the end of the list (Nos. 12 and 13), because, contrary to the other families of birds searched for Mallophaga, all the species of these two families are not connected with the water environment. The numeration so established is consequently kept throughout the present study and also applied in the map to mark the localities at which the birds of the following families examined for Mallophaga were found: 1. Ciconiidae, 2. Plegadiidae, 3. Ardeidae, 4. Gruidae, 5. Rallidae, 6. Charadriidae, 7. Laridae, 8. Anatidae, 9. Phalacrocoracidae, 10. Podicipidae, 11. Colymbidae, 12. Strigidae, 13. Falconidae (Fig. 1 ).
