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the way of material upon which to exercise one's 

 powers of diagnosis and treatment. What then can 

 be done in the case of a Waxbill ? or even a Crow? 

 Practically nothing beyond prevention, and this in its 

 various forms has been dealt with in our previous 

 volumes, even the post mortem reports affording many 

 hints to a thoughtful reader. 



Of course a bird which is obviously suffering 

 from some acute disease or other should be put under 

 conditions of warmth (not heat), pure air, and quietude, 

 and should be furnished with digestible food. Drug 

 treatment should be left alone. The only people who 

 may be allowed to advise drugs are those who know 

 little about them, less of the bodies they put them into, 

 and nothing or even less than nothing of the natural 

 history of the diseases affecting the bodies. 



Ilbe 6enn5 Speimopbila. 



By WKSr.EY T. Page, F.Z.vS. 



(Contin7ied from page 92^. 



Euler's Finch. 



5. 6'. superciliaris. 

 Adult male : The upper surface is olive-green, 

 save for the following variations: median, greater, 

 bastard wing, primary coverts and quills, dusky brown 

 edged with olive ; the greater and median-coverts are 

 tipped with huffish white, forming a double wing bar; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown edged with olive ; crown 

 of the head olive-green suffused with dusky ; lores and 

 eye-streak, yellowish-while; ear-coverts, olive streaked 

 with whitish; cheeks, throat and under surface of body 

 pale yellowish-white, almost pure white on the lower 



