FAUNAE OF NESTS OF THE MAGPIE AND CROW IN WESTERN MONTANA

Abstract
Incidental to the collecting of ticks and other animal parasites in the Bitterroot Valley of Southwestern Montana, a number of nests of magpies. Pica pica hudsonicus, and a nest of the common crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos, were examined particularly for blood sucking dipterous larvae, Protocalliphora spp.