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time. These he would seize in his beak, and after 

 flying up to the highest perch, would then proceed to 

 tear to pieces and swallow them, holding them firmly 

 on the perch by his powerful legs. "Everything 

 vanished except the skull and skin, the latter however 

 being picked quite clean. 



The onl}'' sound I ever heard him make was a 

 squa-ak, which he used to utter when trying to attract 

 my attention to give him some dainty. He lived for 

 about twelve months, and never seemed to ail a 

 moment. I kept him in a room without any artificial 

 heat, and the cold never seemed to affect him in the 

 slightest. One morning he was found dead, though 

 the day before he was as lively as usual. 



My present stock of birds is confined to a Grey 

 Parrot, who is an excellent talker, but I live in hopes 

 of being some day the possessor of numerous aviaries, 

 which are stocked in my dreams with all manner of 

 rare birds. 



lEMtoriaL 



YELK OF EGG AND LEPROSY :— What would 

 seem to be one of the most inscrutable problems assail- 

 ing the pathologist is the complete elucidation of the 

 natural history of leprosy. The fundamental reason for 

 this difficulty lies in the fact that it has always been 

 found impossible to cultivate the bacillus on any 

 of the known media. In the case indeed of an 

 apparently identical disease found in rats (a similar 

 one to which I have also found in birds), " special 

 ^' media have also been tried, such as a medium made 



