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Correspondence.



CORRESPONDENCE.



PARROT SUFFERING FROM CRAMP

Will someone advise me as to a remedy for my rare Lesson’s Amazon ?

For a month or two the bird will be apparently perfectly well, and then it is sud¬

denly seized with a kind of cramp which affects the legs and feet. The legs

straighten and the bird at times is unable to grasp its perch, when it stumbles

about on the drawer of the cage, with feet partly contracted. A few hours after¬

wards the attacks disappear, although some have lasted more or less for two or three

days.


I cannot induce it to eat seed, nuts, or grain. It will only feed on boiled

rice, potato, custard, and the like. The parrot comes out o his cage every day and

exercises his wings, and is apparently in good health otherwise.



H. D. Astlev.



