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IN the Feathered World oi June 3, 1904, and follow- 

 ing dates, these notes can be found : — 

 BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIRDS. 

 Answered by Dr. Buti^er. 

 Thrushes with Indigestion (J. s.).— Why do you not 



look at " Answers to Queries?" Look at answer to " W. H." 

 last week. Fits, coughing, sneezing and many other ailments 

 are due to incorrect feeding. No food for Thrushes can be 

 called really good unless it contains plenty of yolk of egg and 

 ants' eggs; those who speak against yolk have never attempted 

 to explain why it is only those birds which get most of it that 

 are exempt from enteric fever, and those which get least of it 

 are the very ones which die from that disease. 



(June 10). Enteric Fever in Birds.— Madam,— In last 

 week's " Answers to Correspondents," Dr. Butler wishes to 

 have it explained " why it is only those birds which get most of 

 it (egg) that are exempt from enteric fever, and those which get 

 least of it are the very ones which die from that disease." 



This question requires no explanation, because enteric 

 fever is as yet unknown in birds. 



But septic enteritis, which is due to quite another bacillus 

 than that which is responsible for enteric [alias typhoid) fever, 

 attacks birds fed on egg more readily than those which get 

 none, other conditions being equal. — W. Geo. CresweIvI.. 



(June 17). Enteric Fever in Birds.— Madam,— I do not 

 pretend (not being a medical man) to be able to distinguish 

 between enteric fever and septic enteritis. As a rule, I believe, 

 when bird-keepers speak of " enteric fever " they mean the 

 disease which does attack birds, whether it be the offspring of 

 a different bacillus from typhoid or not being to them of little 

 interest. 



Dr. Creswell asserts that septic enteritis "attacks birds 

 fed on egg more readily than those which get none, other con- 

 ditions l)eing equal." I do not know exactly what he intends 

 by the saving clause which concludes his statement ; but I do 

 know that my experience and that of other reliable avicultur- 

 ists who have devoted many years to the study of bird life, 

 have led us to an exactly opposite conclusion. 



At various times I have lost seed-eaters from the disease. 



