35(S Post Mortem Reports. 



Whydah of Undetekmined Species. (A. C. Youn;^, 

 Ncwcastle-on-Tyne). The cause of death was true bu'd fever, which 

 is very deadly and highly contagious. The mortality is very great 

 in a ']jird-r<iijm, less so in a large open out-door aviai'y whei'e it 

 takes a l<)nger i>eriod to kill off the inmates. Thorn aghly disin- 

 fect your cages by immersing them in a 6 per qjut. solution of 

 carbolic acid .after they have been scrubbed and washed. Iso'.ate 

 all the other birds, singly if possible. 



Canary and Beaeded Tit. (The Hon. ]\Iary C. Hawke, 

 Tadcaster). The cause of death was pneumonia in )>ntli instances. 

 Try the tits with cream cheese. 



Squamaua Quail cf. (W. Shore Bailey, Westbury^i. The 

 cause of death was ansemia resulting from cocvddia o,r protozoal 

 piarasites in both caeca and in the lungs. This disease is very 

 Qonteigious esl^ecially to the galUnacea. 



Hex Superb Tanager. (Miss E. Maud Knobel, 32 Tavi- 

 stock Square, jW.C.) The cause of death was hepatitis and pneu- 

 monia. The lungs were consolidated, which is rather unusual in 

 birds; there was an effusion of blood into the abduminal cavity; 

 the liver was tremendously enlarged, and nutmeg-like in appear- 

 ance, and th.e spleen was yellowish, and al>uut 'twice its normal 

 size. The bird was well nourished. The swollen appearancei of 

 the abdomen during life was due to the enlargtement of the liver. 

 Tanagers, and in fact all the fruit and insect-eating birds are very 

 liable to enlargement of the liver, which is generally brought about 

 by living too freely on highly stimulating food, and nut getting 

 a, corresponding amount of exercise to counterbalance the high living. 

 Seed-eating( birds, on the contrary, suffer from acute yellow atrophy 

 of the liver. Give vichy water occasionally. 



Ansioered. hy Post — G. Eice, Mrs. Henderson, The Hon. M. 

 C. Hawke, Miss Maud Bousfield, O. Millsum. 



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



