94 Post Mortem lieports. 



Post Mortem Reports. 



Vide Rules. 



Fo7' repUti hy post, a fee of 2s. 6d. imist he sent; this rule 

 will not he hroken under any condition. 



Post-Mortem Reports can only appear in next issue ivhcn bodies 

 are received hy Mr. Gray prior to the 31st of any month. 



It ivould greatly help to elucidate contagious diseases in hirds 

 if memhers of F.B.C. in sending me dead birds, loere to state 

 the source from luhich ttiey obtained the birds and when. The names 

 of the sellers would be kept a secret. 



Zebra Finch (9). (Eev. John M. Paterson, Sussex). Cause 

 of death egg-binding-. This is generally brought about by a chill, 

 contracted during damp or chilly weather. 



Egg-binding is, in my experience, always due to a chill. 

 I have, however, never noticed it during intensely cold or hot weather, 

 if dry. It has always occurred during chilly weather or easterly 

 or northerly winds. 



If the egg had been burst, your bird's life might have been 

 saved. 



In future, when you find a hen bird on the ground, panting, 

 and having ruffled feathers, always examine the hinder pai't by 

 means of index finger and thumb, for an egg, which gerberally 

 cannot, in these cases, pass through the sphincter or ring of th*^ 

 cloacal outlet of the oviduct. 



Military Starling (Philip Gosse, M.R.C.S.;, Hants. I liis 

 bird had been suffering some time from bird -fever. Tlie liver and 

 spleen were crammed with innumerable nodules. It is highly con- 

 tagious by direct and indirect means. Adopt strict methods of 

 disinfection. No doubt the companion bird died of the same 

 complaint. 



Jacarini Finch (cf). (Miss H. Louise Morgan). Cause of 

 death was pnemonia. 



Californian Quail ($). (The Hon. Lady Harvey, Slough). 

 Cause of death, pneumo-enteritis, but without history of other birds 

 in contact with it cannot say whether it is of the infectious type. 

 It was somewhat emaciated. 



Superb Tanager (cf). (Mrs. Easton Scott). The cause of 

 death was inflammation of the bowels. I do not consider the diet 

 in any way contributed towards the bird's death. When fru- 

 givorous birds are a bit down, try malute of iron in the water 

 and give them extract of malt. 



Violet Tanager (Mrs. C. H. Longdui). The cause of 

 death was caseous or cheesy pneumonia, and must have been of 

 some standing. 



Ansivered by Post. — Miss Venie Maggs, Countess von Hahn, 

 and ;he Hon. Mary C. Hawke. 



H. GRAY, M.R.C.V.8 



