“…A more critical review of the literature indicates, however, that (1) three of the transmission attempts cited were not from published papers, but rather were "personal communications" and are of doubtful scientific value since details are not available; (2) one of the citations (Fallis and Bennett 1958) was incorrect; that is, it contained no information on the attempted transfer of Leucocytozoon bonasae from grouse to ducks and sparrows, rather they transferred L. bonasae from grouse to grouse; (3) the statement that Fallis et al (1973) failed to transfer L . schoutedeni from chickens to guinea fowl and Leucocytozoon neavei from guinea fowl to chickens was Source: Prepared from data presented by Bennett and Campbell (1975), Greiner and Kocan (1977), Bennett et al (1982Bennett et al ( , 1992a, Bishop and Bennett (1992), Forrester et al (1994), Super and van Riper (1995), Rintamäki et al (1999), Adlard et al (2002Adlard et al ( , 2004, Valkiūnas et al (2002), Savage (2004), Savage et al ( , 2006a, Jones et al (2005), Peirce et al (2005), and Valkiūnas (2005).…”