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[Vide Rules). 



Pui^ivET. (Tlie Hon. M. C. Hawke). Pneumonia was the cause 

 of death. 



Pheasant Pour/r. (The Hon. M. C. Hawke). This bird died 

 of tracheal and bronchial irritation due to gape worms, of 

 which there was a large number present. Otherwise it was 

 free from any disease. 



Canary. (Mr. North). This bird had been wheezing more or 

 less for twelve months. Chronic bronchitis due to irri- 

 tation by particles of smoke carbon, accompanied by 

 anaemia and finally by rupture of cerebral vessel. 



Cordon Bi.eu. (Mrs. E. Mellor). A posterior basal meningitis 

 (inflammation of the membrane enclosing the brain and 

 upper part of the spinal cord) was the cause of death. 



Mannikin. (Mrs. E. Mellor). Septic inflammation of the 

 lungs and air sacs was present. The spleen was much 

 enlarged and contained many septic bacilli. 



Diamond Finch. (The Hon. M. C. Hawke). This bird 

 arrived too late for satisfactory examination. Decomposi- 

 tion had set in. It was a male bird, and the beak did not 

 shew the rosy pink colour of the female. 



Canary. (Mr. Picard). This bird was too fat internally, its 

 liver was engorged, and there was a lesulting rupture of a 

 large vessel in the brain. The watercress had nothing to 

 do with this. 



Canary. (Rev. R. E. P. Gorringe\ Over eating, followed by 

 enlargement of liver and spleen and congestion of brain, 

 was the train of events here. We should be very sparing 

 of either stimulating or oily food in cages, where birds get 

 little or no adequate exercise. 



Canary. (Mrs. Butler). There was not a trace of septicaemia 

 in this bird. The lungs were slightly inflamed but all the 

 other organs were quite healthy. 



Ribbon Finch. (Mr. A. Wheeler). Pneumonia of septic 

 origin was the cause of death. 



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