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mite-filled cyst on a brown-headed cowbird (molothrus ater) in florida, usa.

a large, partly pedunculated mass on the scapular area of a wild-caught captive brown-headed cowbird (molothrus ater) consisted of a multiloculated keratin cyst inhabited by a new species of harpirhynchid mite (harpirhynchus quasimodo). the mass did not interfere with flight or behavior. this is the first record of such an infestation of cowbirds in florida.