236 Post Mortem Reports. 



" hope you may have a share in successful experimenting. I rather 

 " fancy that grass and groundsel help to retain the green in the 

 " colouration, and I fried to substitute as greenfood the more bleached 

 " varieties of lettuce, such as the drumhead.— J. M. Paterson, .^ug. tQ, 

 " 1914." 



I hope you may find something of general interest in the enclosed 



etters which, please return, for " B.N." readers. 

 Harrogate, Aug. 27th, 1916. J. W. MARSDRN. 



[We are much indebted to Mr. Marsden for sendin;^ such interesting 



etters and tender best thanks to the writers of them, and should be 



•lad to receive their latest results. ~Fd]. 



BREEDING MANY-COLOUR, AND STANLEY PARRAKEETS. 



Sir, — It is not necessary for me to repeat details of treatmen .13 

 hcse were fully given list year, but I am glad to nc able to report Xu.a 

 ny pair of Many-colours, have successfully reared four very fine young 

 )nes, which are quite independent and strong on the wing. The Stanleys 

 lave also fully reared three, which are now strong on th3 wing and in 

 )eautifu] feather. This year for some reason the hen Stanley did very 

 ittle feeding after her babies were: a week old. p s ibly she may have 

 fone off formi a little; the cock, however, did hi. pirl 4^ w?ll 'h.it the 

 ^oung were all reared, and certainly they have never r.a od nmr y>)u.-.;4 

 han the trio referred to above. 



Kendal: August 7, 1916. J. SMITH. 



Post Mortem Reports. 



Canary.— (A. H. Scott, Liphov^K, Hants). The cause of the cock 

 Canary's death was acute pneumonia. 



Miss Johnson, Orr, Hastings. The cause of death of the two birth 

 sent was fatty degeneration of the heart and liver. In-breeding is likely 

 :o predi:;pose birds to "French moult."' Hrccling boxes, hu^ks. etc.. shoul.l 

 DC creosoted at least once a year, even if not renewed. 



Answered by /705/:— Jamis \callaiid ; .Vliss Sturton Johnson. 



H <;ray. M.R.C.V.S. 



The History of the Budgerigar. 



Ekkata : Re page 131, June i;sue. In this instalment the foot- 

 note has got mixed up with the t..-xt, making it read incoherently. 



We apologise for the error, a!s j for the irrcgu'ar manner In which 

 the article was broken up into instalments. We are only partly to hiani2, 

 OUT hands were forced, mostly by shortness of copy an 1 not being able 

 always to wait for the mail bringing Dr. Hopkins in's revisio.ns. The 

 " time? " a'so are very diffi;"u't for the printers, and it is impossible to 

 avoid rushing things at times and in this way errors creep in. W^e will 

 reprint the portion referred to in a later i:sue, so as to clear up the 

 incoherence. — Ed. 



