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in numbers into their holes on onr appearance. By 

 this time we had to make for the station to catch our 

 train back to the busy Metropolis. But for the 

 weather we should have spent a most glorious day. 



POST-MORTEM REPORTS. 



{Vide Rules). 



Ribbon Finch, cock. (Rev. R. H. Wilmot). Found dead. 

 There was a localized extravasation on the vertex of the 

 skull, due to a sharp blow. This was the cause of death ; 

 the injuries to the toes were not recent. 



Canary, hen. (Mrs. McAdam). This bird was ill when she 

 was bought, and would have been dear at i/-, let alone 21/-. 

 The cause of death was an old pleurisy on the left side 

 with an effusion of pus, combined with resulting and 

 extensive amyloid degeneration of the liver and spleen. 

 The right lung was quite healthy. The amyloid disease 

 shows long continuance of the original pleurisy. The 

 treatment that had been adopted was quite useless. 



Aurora-Finch, hen. (Dr. Hopkinson). All the organs were 

 quite healthy, but she was not in breeding condition 

 (although she had built a nest and was sitting). Death was 

 due to concussion of the brain, there being a large and 

 sharply defined hoemorrhage on the vertex. 



Canary, hen. (Mr. Tweed), Very meagre particulars as to 

 illness. Lung congestion w-as the cause of death, com- 

 bined with disease of the kidney. 



Cropper, cock. (Dr. Mottram). For some time past this 

 pigeon has been ill, sitting about on the floor, with hurried 

 respiration and gradual progressive emaciation. He had 

 diarrhoea, and if held up a foul smelling fluid exuded from 

 the mouth. On examination the liver was found to be 

 studded with innumerable tiny white spots. The spleen also 

 was nodulated in the same way and was enlarged. The 

 contents of intestines, the heart blood, and the spleen were 

 crowded with septic bacteria of all forms, the cause of 

 death being septicaemia. Tubercle bacilli were absent. 



