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IPost riDortcm IRcports. 



(Vide Rules). 



Canary. (Mr. Tweed). Death was due to egg-binding. 



Canary. (Mrs. MacAdaiii). This hen had laid a small clutch 

 of eggs, deserted her nest, and died. It was supposed that 

 she too had died in consequence of some lesion connected 

 with ovulation, but death was due to fatty degeneration of 

 the liver with congestion of the spleen, and to an acute 

 attack of pneumonia. The owner was surprised to hear of 

 the fatty liver, since its food had been of the plainest. 

 While it is quite possible for such a condition to follow a 

 long course of gluttony on even plain food, yet in this case 

 it is highly probable that the condition was due to high 

 feeding at the hands of the person from whom it was 

 bought. The fatty degeneration was no new thing, but 

 had followed on a clironic congestion of some standing. 



Canary Nestlings, three. (Mr. Tweed). In course of being 

 " reared by hand on boiled rice, oatmeal, and masticated 

 egg and bread." The two elder birds, about three weeks 

 old, had died of septic enteritis. In the case of the 

 3'oungest one (one week old) there was apparently some 

 mistake and the wrong bird had been inadvertently sent, 

 because its crop and stomach contained only rape seed 

 which had evidently been shelled by its parents. It was 

 moreover rather too decomposed for any accurate diagnosis 

 to be made as to the cause of death. 



Cordon Bi,EU. (Mrs. Curtis). An old bird, the primaries and 

 .secondaries being almost white. It had been very correctly 

 fed on millet, grass, aphides, and " ant eggs." Its death 

 was due to pneumonia and enteritis. 



" PECTORAtis " Finch. (Miss Hopkinson). This bird, bought 

 a week before, died of pneumonia. 



GoivD-BREASTED Waxbills, (2), and Cordon 15i,eu. (The 

 Lady Dunleath). These birds, together with seven others, 

 died within a day or two of their purchase from a London 

 dealer, from whose shop they were taken over to Ireland 

 (with every care) by a personal friend of her ladyship. All 

 three died of septic enteritis. 



Cordon Bleu. (Miss Hopkinson). Brought from West Africa 

 about five weeks before its death, which occurred after 

 apparently only a few hours illness. A considerable extent 

 of pneumonia was present in both lungs. 



W. Geo. Creswell. 



