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post fIDortem IReporte. 



( Vide Rules). 



Canary Nestling. (Mr. Whittakei). Acute enteritis was the 

 cause of death. 



Canary. (Mrs. E. INI. Butler). Cougestiou of the liver and 

 apoplexy— not of septicaeniic origin. 



BUDGKRIGAR. {Mr. Chaplin). This bird was inordinately fat, 

 thick layers being present even under the skin. The swell- 

 ing in the abdomen was due to a globular cyst attached to 

 the peritoneum and containing fatty matter. The liver 

 was also undergoing fatty degeneration, the result of long 

 continued congestion. 



GOUI.DIAN Finch. (Miss Curtis). Congestion and fatty 

 degeneration of the liver was present, but pneumonia was 

 the actual cause of death. 



Grken.wingp:d Dove. (Mr. Castle-vSloane). This bird died of 

 pneumonia of right lung. Nothing could have been done 

 in the way of treatment. 



Bi^ACKCAP. (Mr. True). This bird was a mass of fat and died 

 of apoplexy. 



Lark. (Mr. TrueV Unlike the Blackcap this bird was greatly 

 emaciated. The cause of death was chronic enteritis. 



(rorresponbence. 



vSEPTICJeMIA V. TUBERCULOSIS IN BIRDS. 



Sir,— My copies of Bird Notes for December and January 

 have just reached me, in which I am interested to see that your 

 contentions and evidence, ?'^ Septicaemia v. Avian Tuberculosis 

 have apparently been accepted as irrefutable by your opponents. 

 Allow me therefore to offer you my belated congratulations 

 on having successfully laid out the " Consumptive Parlour 

 Canary " Bogey. EMII.IUS Hopkinson, M.B. 



Gambia, West Africa. 



[During some of Dr. Hopkinson's visits to my house when 

 on leave last sutnmer, I took the opportunity of showing him 

 my microscopical and other preparations relating to this sub- 

 ject.— Ed.] 



