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POST MORTEM REPORTS. 



{Vide Rules). 



Textor Weaver. (Mr. G. Grace). This bird showed the 

 typical signs of septic intoxication. The intestines were 

 inflamed, there w^as a patch of pneumonia in left lung, and 

 an effusion of blood on the surface of the brain and into 

 the airspaces of the skull. The septic bacillus was 

 swarming. 



Budgerigar. (Mr. jMoxon). In this case no sj-mptonis of 

 illness had been detected. On examination there was 

 found well marked congestion of the intestines, and the 

 vent feathers were very dirty : the final cause of death was 

 the usual extravasation of blood from one of the vessels of 

 the meninges. INIicroscopicall}' the septic bacillus was 

 present in great quantit}'. 



Crimson-crowned Weaver. (Mr. Grace). The liver was in 

 a state of fatty degeneration, the spleen congested, but not 

 much enlarged, and the intestines, which were intensely 

 congested, contained undigested seed. A vessel had given 

 way on the brain. The intestines contained swarms of 

 bacilli. 



Goldfinch. (Mrs. Button). The right lung was the seat of 

 pneumonia, and there was an extensive haemorrhage on 

 the surface of the brain, which was deeply congested. 



Orpington Pullet. (Dr. W. T. Greene). This bird was 

 excessively fat — a layer half an inch thick covering all the 

 abdominal organs. The pericardium also was invested with 

 the same material, a prolongation of which extended 

 downwards between the hepatic lobes. vShe had pneumonia 

 of the right lung, and inflammation of the upper third of 

 the oviduct and the adjacent mesenteric folds. There were 

 eggs in various stages of development, but none of them 

 hait yet entered the oviduct, which w-as empty in its entire 

 length. The duodenum was also inflamed. 



COMBASSOU. (Mr. Dart). Not noticed to be ill : was found 

 dead. There was pneumonia of the right lung combined 

 with a cranial extravasation of blood. 



Long-tailed Grass Finch. (Miss Margaret Feilding). A 

 ruptured shell-less egg was in the lower end of the oviduct, 

 which was much inflamed. No treatment would have 

 availed anxthing. 



Dwarf Finch, hen. (Mr. Fillmer). After apparently only 

 two days' illness this bird was found dead. The liver and 

 spleen were much congested and there was some jaundice 

 present. 



Bullfinch. (Mr. Dart). This bird, which died in my presence 

 in a fit, had been for some time subject to diarrhoea and 

 difficulty of breathing. The intestines were inflamed 

 (enteritis), the lungs were healthy, and there was intense 



