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BuiJ.FiNCH. (Mr. Cattle). This lieii was approacliiiig breed- 

 ing condition. The liver was the seat of fatty degeneration 

 in places, following on chronic congestion, bnt pneninonia 

 was the immediate canse of death. Withont knowing that 

 the Gonldians actually died of pneumonia it is impossible 

 to say that they communicated the disease. 



QUAKKR ParrakeeT. (Mrs. Mortimer). This bird had chronic 

 congestion of the liver, with catarrh of the bowel (enteritis) 

 as the final disease. 



Canary. (Miss Bnsteed). Egg binding was the cause of death. 



Canary. (Mr. Ide). The oviduct was much inflamed and 

 contained a soft egg in the lower portion. 



Canary. (^Ir. Tweed). Efforts at expulsion had ruptured a 

 thin shelled egg in the lower part of the oviduct. Hence 

 death from shock and exhaustion. 



GouLDiAN Finch. (Mrs. Marshall). This bird, which had 

 been only a week in its owners possession, died of septic 

 enteritis. 



S3bort IRotes, ant) Xettcrs to the iBDitor. 



THE NEW V. THE OLD METHOD AT THE ZOO. 



Sir, — Here is an extract from the recentl}- issued Report 

 of the Zoological Society for 1904: — "The Parrots and Parra- 

 " keets in the New Canal Bank Aviary have proved a great 

 " delight to visitors, and there has been a striking decrease in 

 " the rate of mortality of those kept, even throughout the 

 *' winter, in the open aviary as compared Vvitli those in the 

 " heated Parrot House." 



Here is another from The Hygiene of Bird Keeping : — 

 "... while the 'experience' of the old school does not 

 " stand the test of scientific investigation, that zvhich science 

 " teaches to be right does bear the test of practical experience." 



Could there be a better commentary the one upon the 

 other than the above quotations .'' 



W. Geo. Creswei,!,. 



