-SOME HEL~tNTH PARAStTES FROM THE 'CHUKAR PARTRtDGE, ,ALECTORtS GRAECA, OF TUR:KEY, WITH NOTES ON THEtR LtFE HtSTORtES, PATHOGENtCtTY, AND CONTROL

From 1950 to 1952, a number of chukar partridges. Alectoris gra. 'cca, were imported by, the U. S. Fish and Wiİdlife Service into the United States from Turkey for release and subsequent propagation. Whi1e still in quarantine, 40 of these birds became ill and died. They were 'packed in ice and shipped to the then Pathological Division, Bureau of Animal Industry. Washington, D. C., for determination of the cause of death. They were later sent to the Zoological Division, RA.I., to 'be examined for parasites. One of us (EEW) promptly collected and preserved for future studyand identification several kinds of helminth and arthropod parasites from them. On leaming that this collection of parasites from the chukar partridge in Turkey was still available for study, the senior author who had been recently assigned to the Animal Parasite Laboratory, ADP, Beltsville, Maryland, to study poultry parasites und~rtook the identification of the helminth parasites included in it. The present paper includes' a ShOFt description of them, notes on their nomenclature, available in. formation on their life histories, pathogenicity, and control, and a' list of all other helminth parasites reported from this host by other authors. Data on life history, pathogenicity, or control are lacking for some of the species encountered. In such cases information for closely related species is supplieti,