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Pintail Whydah. (Mr. Filliner). Not in a fit slate for 

 examination. 



Budgerigar. (Mr. Slatter). Pueumonia of both lungs. 



ZoSTEROPS. (Mr. Mackie). The liver and spleen were much 

 engorged and the lungs were inflamed 



REDRUMPS (2) and BudgkriGar. (Mr. Mathias). These birds 

 were found dead after a cold night, but there having been 

 considerable delay in sending the bodies, they were not 

 suitable for examination, being in a state of putridity. 



Canary. (Mr. North). This bird, sent for operation, was 

 hopelessly ill and would not have survived. It was there- 

 fore killed. The tumour of the neck, which was cystic, 

 was filled with a cheesy mass. This appeared to the naked 

 eye to be sebaceous, but did not shew any cholesterine. 

 On further examination it was found to be simply a 

 swarming mass of septic bacilli. There were the usual 

 signs of old septicaemia in the spleen. 



•Canary. (Mr. Picard). This was a very interesting case of a 

 disease which I have occasionally found in birds, caused 

 by a bacillus scarcely distinguishable (morphologically) 

 from the bacillus of leprosy as found in man. It had been 

 ill a long time, the final condition being a kind of 

 pneumonia. Some uionths ago I had a series of cases of 

 this disease from a gentleman in the West of England. I 

 shall be glad if Mr. Picard will send me any other birds, 

 while still alive, which he may have at any time in appar- 

 ently the same condition. (The iiou-moulting was not a 

 cause, but an effect of the disease). 



Meadow Pipit. (W. Geo. Creswell). On October 30 this 

 bird had its skull bashed in by a vicious hen Blackbird 

 which had unfortunately been introduced to the aviary a 

 few days before. I took the opportunity to examine the 

 internal organs with a view of seeing the real and ultimate 

 effect of my method of feeding. The bird was plump and 

 well nourished, there was no deposition of unhealthy fat, 

 and the organs and tissues generally were all in a condition 

 of perfect health. 



WhiTEThroaT. (W. Geo. Creswell). This bird met with the 

 same fate as the Titlark before the murderer was identified. 

 Its internal condition was precisely the same. And yet we 

 are still being told that no food is good which does not 

 contain egg. 



W. Geo. CresweivL. 



