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Mr. Haralyn liad also the best consignment of Parrot-finches I have ever seen— 

 over a dozen and quite perfect— as well as three beautiful oairs of Cuban Finches. 



W.E.T. 



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Our members, Messrs. Suggitt and Sutcliffe, have been enterprising enough to 

 import some South American species with considerable success as will be gathered from the 

 following extracts from a most interesting private letter. 



" The ship arrived off Falmouth September 19th, and was ordered to Bremen. The 

 " mate wired '45 Seedeaters and others alive,' and, after being fog-bound for some days 

 " reached Grimsby on the morning of the 15th iust. It is a joint importation of our 



" member, Mr. A. Sutcliffe and myself Those he landed were two Olive-backed 



" Thrushes, probably both females ; one Blue Tanager and one Violet ; fifteen Spermophila 

 " lineata, males, moulting but almost in adult plumage ; sixteen other lineata, which I 

 " took for females, they are olive-brown with buff tips to the greater and median coverts. 

 " One of each died and I promptly despatched them to Mr. Page, who took them 

 " over to the Museum and decided they were both males— the brown buff-tipped ones in 

 " immature plumage. This was disappointing. There are, however, about four hens 

 " amongst them I think. The other fifteen are a mixed lot. Five of them almost tally 

 " with the description of S. analis, male; four are I think females of this species. 



W.E.T 



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Young GoutDiAN Finch. (Miss M. Gibbons). Cause of death, yellow 

 atrophy of liver. 



Cinnamon Finch. (W. E. Tescheniaker). Cause of death, double 

 pneumonia. The abdominal viscera was greenish so could not make 

 out if anything was abnormal with this part of the internal organs. 

 The breast bone was sharp, suggesting illness of at least several days. 



Cock Superb Tanagkr. (T. Turner). Cause of death, enteritis, enlarged 

 liver and haemorrhage on the brain." 



Double-bandrd Finch. (Hay ward M. Mathias). Cause of death, 

 pneumonia. The breast-bone was sharp. 



Madagascar Lovebird. (J. T. Smith). The lungs were congested 

 suggesting that death was caused by exposure. The bird was otherwise 

 in a very good condition. I have sent the remains to a taxidermist 

 with orders to write yon at once. 



Cock Pintail Nonpareil. (Captain Perreau). The growth on the head 



was a yellowish circumscribed cheesy body, the size of a hemp seed, 



which was loosely attached under the skin and causing the absorption 



of the corresponding portion in the cranial bone. A little behind it 



was a pit like depression of the same bone. There was also double 



pneumonia, which in my opinion was the cause of death. The body 



was plump and otherwise normal. 



Henry Gray, M.R.C.V.S. 



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