27 



MARCH 1913 



The Foreign Bird Club. 



{Co,ifnni,',l frniit pa<je 1). 



MAGAZINE COMMITTEE: 



Dk. p. Gossk, Dr J. Easton Scott, 



H. Gkav, M.R.C.V.S., R. Sucicarr, 



J. H. HaKUISON, H. WiM.l'OKO, 



Dk. J. E. R. McDoNAcii. 



SHOW COMMITTEE: 



Miss C. Rosa Litti.k ; Ai,i.i;\ Sii,vi;k; S: M. Townskn'd (Sec). 



SOCIAL COMMITTEE ; 



Mks. C. Anmngson, W. T. Rogkus (Sec). 



Miss M. E. Bakkk, a, Suttcliffe, 



Mrs. E. a. H. Hartlky. W. R. Temple. 

 W. Bamford, 



AWARDS and ARBITRATION COMMITTEE : 



E. W. CuAi'i-i.N, Countess of Winouilsea, 



Dr. H. Hetley, Hon. W. B. Wkottesley, 



R. SuGGiTT (Sec). 

 Serutinetr: S. Beaty. Auditor: W. A. Bainbridge. 



JUDGES : 



H. T. T. Camps, R. Humpiirys, W. Swaysland, 



H. R. FiLLMER, J. RoBSON, S. M. TOWNSEND. 



Post Mortem Reports, 



Golden Pheasani- (?). (Mrs. C. H. Williams, Exeter). Although 

 the carcase was in a very fair condition the bird must have been suffering 

 from tuberculosis some time. The right lung was completely disorganised, 

 being in a caseous condition. The livei was crammed full with tubercles of 

 various sizes ranging fi-om a poppy-seed up to that of a pea. The spleen also 

 contained a few tubercles. This disease being very contagious the remaining 

 birds should either be destroyed or turned on to fresh ground. Poultry are 

 liable to contract and also to disseminate the disease. It is possible to test the 

 bird? for tuberculosis by the use of tuberculin. All those that have the dis- 

 ease in them give a rise of temperature after the injection of tuberculin ; 

 those that have not the disease in them do not give this elevation of tem- 

 perature. Before tuberculin is used the temperatures should be taken twice 

 a day for two days, and if normal (average 1060 F) the tuberculin should be 



