IPost riDortem IReports. 



{Vide Rules). 



RosriLLA. (Mr. Beech). The lungs of this bird, an imported 

 and ver\' recently purchased .specimen, contained an 

 enormous number of filarial worms about one-thousandth 

 of an inch in length. These however were not 



the cau.se of the bird's death, for I believe they are 

 present in the blood of a large proportion of birds when 

 tliey first come over, but disappear after they have been in 

 England aljout twelve or eighteen months. The real cause 

 of the ))ird's death was acute Septicaemia. It was au 

 excellent example of the so called "Tuberculosis," the 

 spleen, liver, and one lung containing caseous nodules. 

 The two former organs were crowded with them. 



Zebra Finch. (Miss Brook.sbank), and 



Goldfinch. (Mr. Fillmer), Both these birds died of acute 

 pneumonia involving an extensive area of both lungs. 



Pekin Robin. (Mr. Acutt). Like the two preceding birds 

 this one also died of pneumonia. I am at a loss to say for 

 certain what the scalping was due to, although it looked 

 more like the work of a bird than a mouse. The bird was 

 a hen. 



Grky Waxbill. (Mrs. McAdam). There were no n:arks of 

 injur3' eitlier in or on this bird, the cause of death being 

 pneumonia. 



GOUI.DIAN Finch. (Mr. Wilson). Egg binding caused tleatli. 

 There were two eggs of large size, neither of them shelled 

 as yet, and one smaller one. 



Jackdaw. (Mr. Acutt). This bird had pneumonia of the 

 right lung, evidently acute. 



BUDGKKIGAU. (Mr. Chaplin). Intensely fat. Congestion of 

 the liver, followed by apoplexy, caused death. 



Masked F'inch, nestlings, two. (Mr. Wilson). These had 

 evidently been thrown out of tlie nest either b}' their 

 parents or some other birds, probablj^ the Diamond 

 Sparrow. 



Indigo Bunting. (Mrs. Mellor). There was a broken blood 

 vessel in the orbit, producing a large clot of blood. You 

 did right to put the bird out of its miser}'. 



