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For my choice of a title for these pages I must 

 apologize to Mr. Py croft and Sir George Newiies, 

 since it is admittedly a paraphrase of " The Story of 

 Bird-Life," under which name exists a most useful 

 and charming little work. 



Grky Java Sparrow, hen. (Mr. Dart). Died of acute pneu- 

 luoiiia. All egg was in an advanced condition. 



Grey Waxbii,!,, hen. (Mr. Dart.) The immediate cause of 

 death was brain hcemorrhage due to a blow on the head, 

 but in addition to this the bird had some congestion 

 of tl.ie liver and left lung. 



Weaver, hen. (Mr. Swan). This bird died of inflammation of 



the bowels, combined with chronic congestion of the 



kidneys and liver. 

 Canary, hen. (Mr. Dart). A fully developed egg had been 



ruptured when on the point of entering the oviduct, with 



the result of setting up a fatal peritonitis. 



Lavender Finch, hen. (Mr. Swan). The cause of death was 

 hcemorrhage into the meninges. There was a localized 

 bruising of the skull, evidently the result of injur3\ 



Budgerigar, hen. (Mr. Dart). On opening the niesenter}^ 

 which was much congested, thickened, and very opaque, 

 there was found to be a tumour which filled the abdominal 

 cavity. This proved to be a multilocular ovarian cystic 

 growth. It weighed over a quarter of an ounce. The 

 oviduct was in the same condition as the mesentery. 



Grey Cardinai,, cock. (Dr. Hopkinson). Liver and spleen 

 were deeply congested ; the stomach and intestines were 

 thickened and inflamed. The liver and spleen were 

 swarming with cocci, and the contents of the intestine 

 showed great numbers of both cocci and bacilli indis- 

 tinguishable from those of epizootic septicoemia. 



BiCHENO Finch, hen. (Mr. Fillmer). The cause of death was 

 egg-binding, the cloaca containing a shell-less egg. 



G01.DFINCH, cock. (Mr. Horton). All the internal organs con- 

 nected with alimentation were congested. No septic 

 cause of this was discoverable except a few cocci in the 

 intestines. What about too rich a diet while confined in a 

 cage, with perhaps only an occasional and perfunctory 

 cleaning of water vessels ? 



Parrakeet, hen. (Mr. Dart). Inordinately fat. Liver very 

 congested. Intestines dark-coloured and hypercemic. 



