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liad three eggs have only hatched one, and an 

 going on all right. The other pair built again a very 

 pretty domed nest with just a small hole at the side 

 for them to enter b}', placing it on the top of a cocoa- 

 nut husk that was hung in a corner : unfortunately, 

 some other birds have pulled it partly to pieces, and 

 destroyed the solitary egg it contained ; I find they 

 have repaired it, but it is not now such an interesting 

 nest as it was at first, for it is now almost like a 

 Canary's. Dr. Creswell, who saw it in its original 

 condition, wanted me to photograph it, but unfortu- 

 nately I put off doing this until too late. 



POST MORTEM REPORTS. 



(l^'tde Rules). 



Black Grouse, cock. (Mr. Pycraft). This bird, six weeks 

 old, in addition to having gape-worms (Syngaums trachia- 

 Hs) in the wind pipe, also manifested the usual abdominal 

 appearances of septicaemia. More particularly the central 

 two inches of one of the coeca (measuring eleven inches 

 altogether), was occupied by a cheesy tumour practically 

 filling up the calibre of the gut This was attached on 

 one side to the gut wall, leaving elsewhere just enough 

 space for the passage of the bowel contents. Here was a 

 typical case of "tuberculosis," which had it fallen into the 

 hands of some people would have satisfied all the con- 

 ditions attached by them to that disease, irrespective of 

 the fact that the bird had only had six weeks of life in 

 which such a chronic disease could have produced so large 

 a growth. 



This growth, the contents of the large bowel, and also 

 those of the small intestine and coeca, showed however no 

 tubercle bacilli under the tests for that form of parasite, 

 but they were all crowded with septic organisms. The 

 liver also showed a few isolated bacilli. 



ZosTEROPS, cock. (Mr. Fillmer). Recently bought with 

 another v/hich died in two days, this bird was ill from time 

 of purchase until its death, and general septicaemia was 

 the cause of death. 



