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It is needless to say that she constantly inculcates 

 upon her youthful readers those lessons as to their 

 behaviour to the lower animals, which are dictated 

 alike by common sense and humanity. 



IPost flDorteni IRepoits. 



{Vide Rules). 



Bi,ACK-HEADED Mannikin. (Mrs. Vernon). This httle bird 



owed its death to injuries inflicted by the Budgerigars. 



It is never safe to keep these birds with small ones. 

 Zkbra Finch. (The Hon. Mrs. Somerset Ward). Enteritis, 



i.e., intestinal catarrh, was the cause of death, 

 Crkst-brkd Canary. (Mrs. McAdani). Fatty degeneration 



of the hver, the result of chronic congestion due to a 



previous too liberal feeding. The bird was intensely 



emaciated. 

 Budgerigar. (Mr, Chaphn), There can be no doubt that 



death was remotely due to over eating, since the bird was 



inordijiately fat, and the immediate cause was apoplexy. 

 Budgerigar, (Miss Brooksbank). The condition was exactly 



the same as in Mr, Chaplin's bird. 

 Ribbon Flinch. (Mr. Howe). Unfortunately I could not 



determine the cause of death in this case : the bird had 



possibly received some shock. 



W. Geo. Creswei.i.. 



(Torrespon&ence. 



WANTED— A BOOK ON BIRD DISEASES. 



Sir, — Could you or any of your readers reconnnend me a 

 practical work giving accurate information on the general 

 management of birds, and the prevention and cure of their 

 diseases } 



Beyond a stray paper or article on the investigation of 

 some microbal disease and its means of prevention or cure 

 from the pen of some eminent Russian, German, French, 



