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IRotes on mv> Bviaries auD IParrakeets. 



A vSEQUEL. 

 By the Hon. & Rev. Canon Dutton. 



There was a sequel to the escape of my Senegal 

 Parrot which may be of use to some parrot keepers. 

 I said tlie bird was none the worse. That was true ; 

 but I put it into a cage with some seed, and thought it 

 would be all right. It never occurred to me it would 

 overeat itself, as in more than 50 years' experience, 

 I had never known a parrot do so. But it did, and 

 became crop bound. It seemed likely to die, and 

 it lost flesh with great rapidity — and strength. I 

 administered a mixture of soda, sal volatile and ginger, 

 and worked the crop, but without much effect, then 

 castor oil, and lastly, Epsom salts. These I gave in 

 the middle of one night. Whether it was time or the 

 salts I cannot say, but certainl}' next morning, when I 

 expected to find the bird much worse, I noticed im- 

 provement. The salts were again administered the 

 morning after, and then the morning after that. As 

 the bird was moping after this last dose, we gave no 

 more and it went on improving. We gave very little 

 food for some time, and that only of sponge cake. I 

 had, by the way, given doses of brandy and water 

 when the bird was at its worst. At last, I put it back 

 into the aviary. It could not fly very well at first, and 

 for some time the crop stuck out. It has now resumed 

 its normal appearance. 



When the crop binding first took place, the bird 

 tore out the feathers over its crop, so that it looked 

 rather ragged. Now it is all smooth again, but the odd 

 thing is that this, which was the least tame of the 

 birds, now comes to the wire as soon as I approach the 



