Post Min'tnn lirporh. '^2'? 



etc., thrown to tlieiii l).v :iii interested pnl)lic. Their life liistory 

 has here run its course for all who cared to cull and learn, for 

 they have quite lost their natural shyness and timidity. During 

 the last week in September the whole clan were much in evidence 

 —the senior brood assisting their parents in feeding the downy 

 black chicks of the second brood, and, at the same time, still not 

 averse themselves to be fed by their parents.—I have only quoted 

 the bare facts from the cutting as, for the fifteen or more years 

 prior to coming to Mitcham I lived within five minutes walk of 

 Starch Green P<Mid, and the above incident is of great personal 

 interest to me, and I have written up the environment details 

 from personal recollection not yet dim. Since the advent of the 

 electric trams, the district is fast losing its pleasant suburban as- 

 pect -the private villas, with the pleasant front gardens and trees 

 are fast yielding to business premises, and the noise and roar of 

 busy, ceaseless traffic replacing comjjarative quietude. Yet this 

 shy and retiring sjiecies did not then find the spot suitable ; true 

 the enclosure in its ])resent aspect is l)ut some eight years old. 



W.T.P., Mitcham, 3/10/'13. 



Book Notices and Reviews 



Owing ito spare limitations we have liad to hold these over till 

 next issue. 



Post Mortem Reports. 



Vide Rules (See Page Hi of.C'orer.J 



In consequence of being out of town during August and the early 

 part of September my /(;'•//;/( fei/ei/s did not forward the reports for those 

 months to the Editor. I regret if any inconvenience has been caused by the 

 delay. 



Cui?.\ Finch. (("ai)t. J. S. Reeve, Lincoln). Cause of death, acute 

 pneumonia. 



Zebra Finch ( 5 ). lOeo. Scott Freeland, Tonbridge). Cause of 

 death, hiemorrhage on the brain. 



Cuban Finch. (Mrs. C. A. Longdon, Guildford). The cause of 

 death was enteritis. 



SiLVEKBU.i.. (Henry Meakin. Luton). The bird was a male and 

 more than a year old. The cause of death was enteritis. 



Masked GKASS^•I^:CH (<r). (Lieut. F. M. Littledale). Cause of 

 death, apoplexy, Many species of birds often peck and even eat the soft 

 parts, especially the brain, of dead birds. 



Vioi.ET Tanagek ( 5 ). f Geo. Scott Freeland, Tonbridge). Cause of 

 death, pneumonia. 



Parrot Finch. (H. A. Swayne, Dublin). Cause of death, pneu- 

 monia. 



