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PiED WagTAIIv. (Mr. Filliner). This bird was rather decom- 

 posed by the time I had leisure to examine it, but I was 

 able to make out that it had pneumonia in one lung. 



Canary. (Mrs. Mortimer). Egg binding. A fully-formed 

 egg — but broken — was in the oviduct. 



RKDPOl^Ty. (IMr. Filhner). There was a good deal of jaundice 

 present, owing to obstruction of the biliary duct and con- 

 sequent absorption of bile by the blood. The liver was in 

 parts congested and in parts undergoing fatty degenera- 

 tion. But the immediate cause of death was pneumonia. 



BivUE Robin. (Rev. R. H. Wilmot). This bird died of acute 

 septicaemia. The liver was deeply congested and the spleen 

 much enlarged. Both organs were densely infiltrated with 

 nodules of what is so often erroneously called tuberculosis. 

 The bird was plump and well nourished, showing that the 

 disease was of recent origin and rapid in its course. Under 

 the particular circumstances detailed I should recommend 

 a re-perusal of the " Story of Bird - Death " from the 

 beginning. Read as a whole the argument cannot fail 

 to convince, even if reading it by scattered instalments 

 fails to do so. The statement that the food given is "not 

 sufficiently capable of assimilation without egg" is not in 

 accordance with known physiological laws. 



GoiyDFiNCH. (Mr. Bramley). Fatty degeneration of the liver 

 was here the cause of death. 



Canary. (Dr. Geo. Master). There was an extensive patch 

 of pneumonia in the right lung : the left one was also 

 slightly invaded. 



AlvARio. (Mr. Fillmer). The cause of death in the case of 

 this male bird was the same as that of the hen mentioned 

 above. It does indeed seem strange that the Alario finches 

 should be the only individuals of the consignment to go off. 

 Dr. Butler draws the conclusion from the few he has kept 

 that they are long livers. The fact is that, as with other 

 freshly caught birds, the many die while only the fittest 

 individuals survive under their new conditions of environ- 

 ment. 



Canary, Roller cock. (Mrs. McAdam). In this bird there 

 was advanced fatty degeneration of the liver, complicated 

 with pneumonia, which latter was the immediate cause of 

 death. Such cases as these are instructive, shewing as 



