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Canary. (Mr. Horton). Acute double pneumonia of recent 

 onset was the cause of death. 



Grey Parrot. (Mrs. Fowler). This bird did not belong to a 

 member, but to a local friend of mine. Its health was good 

 for two years and seemed to be so up till within two days 

 of its death. It died of a disease which is more often 

 found in Fowls than in cage-birds, and which is character- 

 ized by the presence of the aspergillus fumigatus (one of 

 the mould-fungi) in the air passages, air sacs, and sometimes, 

 as in this case, the lungs, (The air sacs are bag-like 

 cavities communicating with the lung, and in mammals 

 are represented as an attenuated survival by the pleurae, as 

 the result of "evolution by atrophy.") In this particular 

 case the symptoms before death were those of pneumonia. 

 Several instances have occurred of this disease (pneumono 

 mycosis) being communicated to man. 



Budgerigar. (Mr. Harman). Apoplexy was the cause of 

 death — not associated with septic disease. 



Canary. (Mrs. McAdam). There were no symptoms of in- 

 ternal disease in this bird, but there was a large blood clot 

 at the base of the brain, causing death by apoplexy. 



W. Geo. Creswei,!,. 



RATvS. 

 Sir, — You ask for something with which to combat rats. 

 The plan I use is to place round the aviar}', in the ground, 

 sheet iron or fine wire netting some 15 or 18 inches deep, with 

 the lower part bent outward nearly at right angles for about 

 six inches. 



In blocking the runs with concrete a little broken glass 

 should be added to the cement. 



John Acutt. 



