Dr. Stephens supplies the following history: Guillemots chiefly, razorbills less, and puffins (a few pairs only) breed on the cliffs. The birds were beginning to lay at this period which may account for the few ticks captured. The cliffs are said to be "crawling" with them at other times (later in the season). These found under stones and in cracks in the earth a few inches down. I found one copulating pair in a crack hen alive they are about the colour of a Belgian hare, rather greener not so yellow. No larvae were found. N 969 1 ♂, 2, 2 N Ixodes uriae Cliffs, Rhossili (51.35 N, 04.18 W), Glamorganshire, Wales 15-20.V.1909 Rec'd from Dr. J.W.W. Stephens (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Cited: Nuttall & Warburton (1911; 258, fig. 255; 259, fig. 260; 260). |