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Whitk-headed Mannikin. (Mrs. Wright). Piieutnouia of 

 both lungs was present in a very virulent form. 



Canarv. (Miss Gibbons). This bird, which was very anaemic, 

 died of pneuinonia. Re foreign birds just bought from a 

 dealer : they should be kept iu quarantine for about three 

 weeks. 



Peach-faced Love-bird. (Mrs. Leslie Miller). Recently 

 bought from dealer, this bird died of septic disease. The 

 feeding was quite correct. 



Xctters to the lEMtor. 



LADY DUNLKATH'S AVIARIEvS. 



Sir, — It may interest some of your readers to know how 

 my aviary is doing. I am happy to say that I have lost very 

 few birds this winter, and all are looking very well. The 

 Green Cardinals made a nest on a stump and laid three eggs, 

 two hatched and now there is one very well-grown young one 

 flying about; its parents still feed it. I cannot make out 

 what happened to the other. The old birds are very tame aud 

 fly to me for mealworms whenever I go into the aviar}'. 



I have a great number of young Zebra Finches. I saw 

 eight being fed all together on the ground, the other day, by 

 one old cock. 



The Cut-throats are sitting. 



Two Canaries have young ones, and two others are sitting. 

 I have four so-called wild Canaries; they are green, very slim, 

 aud have a soft, gentle song. They were brought to me by a 

 friend from Madeira ; one laid two eggs (it made a nest on the 

 ground), one hatched, but it died. A yellow Canary has made 

 a nest of hay aud feathers in a fern and another in the side of 

 an old stump. 



The hen Bullfinch, a German, mated with a Russian cock, 

 reared some beautiful young ones in 1903; last year she made 

 three nests and all the eggs gradually disappeared ; this year 

 she made a lovelj' concealed nest in a fern against an old root 

 and laid four eggs on which she seemed to sit well, but the eggs 

 have gradually gone. She may have eaten them herself — is 

 it likely .' Or mice may have taken them, or perhaps Saffron 

 Finches. I cannot make out — one side of the uest looked a 

 little pulled about. 



