On a Plasmodium SP. of the Malay Chestnut-Bellied Munia [Munia Atricapilla Atricapilla (Vieill.)]

a plasmodium were observed in three out 0 sixty-one specimens of the Malay chestnutbellied munia [Munia atricapilla atricapw0. (Vieill.) ] examined. The infected birds hao been imported and were obtained from dealersScott (1927) recorded a parasite of the order Hannosporidia in the same host from a biro which had died in the Zoological Society9 Gardens in London, but the infection was to? scanty to enable him (and Wenyon) to detei* mine whether it was Plasmodium prcecox or a hsemoproteus. Method of study.?In the present series ?* observations the strain was maintained by bloQ inoculation in the natural host and in the white* throated munia [Uroloncha malabarica (Linn.)J when the former was not available in the marketBoth are small birds and 1/20 c.cm. of citrate blood was considered a suitable quantity *?r inoculation, either into the wing vein or intra* muscularly into the leg. Combined Leishman-Giemsa stain was used ? prolonged staining was necessary to bring ?u the characteristic sex differences of the ganieto* cytes.