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were heated. Fancy raising a weak and puling Chimpanzee on the hills

at Cannock, and seeing it develop into a perfect wonder! The event

is unique, but the Doctor took it as a matter of course—this great

naturalist did not know his greatness.


Dr. Butter was not married. Our hearts go out in sympathy to

the sister who kept house for him and gave so cheery a welcome to his

friends.


George Jennison.


[A portrait of Dr. Butter appeared in our volume for 1918; papers

by him on the Emu and Common Bhea were published in the

Avicultural Magazine for July of last year ; his final contribution

immediately follows this notice. Well known as police surgeon and

as an expert witness in medico-legal cases, he was also a lecturer and

examiner for the St. John’s Ambulance Society. The public respect

for his memory was shown by the thousands who thronged the streets

of Cannock on May 4, when the funeral was held in Cannock Parish

Church previous to cremation at Glasgow.—G. B.]



AN EGG-BOUND PARROT


By the late John K. Butter, M.D.


I have a Grey Parrot which has been in my possession for twenty-

two years, and is always kept in the kitchen in a large roomy cage.

I noticed three weeks ago that although she fed fairly well, she was

listless, drooping, and unable to lift her leg up as usual to hold her

food in her claws. 1 thought she must be suffering from rheumatism.

As she did not seem to improve and preferred to sit in the bottom of

the cage, instead of on the perch, I got her out and examined her care¬

fully. 1 noticed every now and then, at intervals of three or four

minutes, she was in pain and straining badly ; her droppings were

passed with a great deal of mucus and wind. A round swelling could

be seen and felt through the skin of the abdomen ; with the help of

some vaseline I was able to make out the form of an egg and that she

was egg-bound, so I vaselined the passage and the egg well with my

finger. She was shivering a good deal, so I put her in front of the fire

on the top rail of a kitchen chair, after giving her three drops of white



