Book Notices and Bevieivs. 357 



Stoemy Petijel. 



Sir,— A Stormy Petrel was caught (inland) near here on 

 Novembei- 27th. 



WALTER SWAYSLAND. 



Book Notices and Reviews. 



Talk*; about Birds: By Frank Finn, containing Ifi full- 

 pago coloured plates, 20 in black and white, and 240 p^p. of text. 

 Small Square Demy 8vo., Cloth Gilt-top, 6s. net. London, A. & 

 C. Black, Soho Squai-e, W. A splendid gift book for young people 



Also received : 



Bird Peotection and the Featheeed Teade: 



Desceiption of a New Hatry Woodpeck>ee, Berkeley 

 Univ. Press. 



Will be reviewed in January Bird Notes. 



Post Mortem Reports. 



Vide Rules. 



For replies by post, a fee of 2s. 6d. must be sent: this "'ule 

 icill not be broTcen under an;/ condition, 



Post-Mortenii Reports can 'only appear in next issue when bodie^s 

 are received by Mr. Gray prior to the 31st of any montli. 



It ivofuld greatly help me to elucidate contagious diseases in 

 birds if memibers of F.B.C. were in sending me dead birds to state 

 the source tliey 'olrtained the thirds from and ivhen. The names of 

 the sellers would be Jcept a secret. 



Great Tit found hanging on a cocoanut. (Miss Dorothy E. 

 Pithie, Bel lev ue, Lymington, Hants.) Cause of death, hcemorrhage 

 into the liver, probably from an injury. 



Pair of Parson Finches and Zebra Finch. fCapt. J. S. 

 Reeve, Leadenham. House, Lincoln). The cause of death was con- 

 gestion of the lungs, probably tirought about by a chill. 



SiLVEE-EAEED Mesia (cf ) . Miss M. Drummond, Errol, N.B.) 

 Death was produced by hgemorrhage, resulting from a ruptured livea\ 

 Long-tailed Geasspinch. (H. V. Johnson, Southport). The 

 spleen and liver were very much enlarged and crammed with in- 

 numerable yellowish no Wes so character isfc of ti-ue bird fever. These 

 lesions resemble very much those of tuberculosis, which is a, very rare 

 disea^so in cage-birds, notwithstanding the fact it is recorded against 

 post mortem reports appearing in a fancy paper and from one 

 who has no pathological knowledge whatever. Bird fever is very 

 contagious and occasions great losses in bird rooms. 



