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Orange-flanked Parrakeet. (Mrs. Connell). [This bird died from

inflammation of the bowels].


Two young Zebra-finches. (Mr. Maxwell). Found dead on the floor,

had just left the nest. [These birds died from want of nourishment,

most likely owing to their leaving the nest too early and their parents

being neglectful as to their feeding].



St. Helena Waxbill. (Mr. A. F. Wiener). [Jaundice was the cause of

death]. _


Hen Budgerigar. (Mr. A. J. Salter). Found dead; has just reared two

young, now five weeks old. [Concussion of the brain, caused by direct

injury to the head, was the cause of death].



Two Parson Finches. (Miss M. H. Woods). No. i newly purchased, No.

2 in owner’s possession two years; both developed same symptoms and

died same evening. [Both birds died of enteritis. No i was much

emaciated, and the symptoms point to contagious disease. Bake or

destroy the cage. See Rev. C. D. Farrar’s advice, p.162 of this Magazine.]



Hen Bullfinch. (Mr. N. S. O’Reilly). Died suddenly when building a

nest. [Death resulted from apoplexy].



Half-moon Conure. (Miss Alderson). Found ill and unable to fly, died

in a few hours. [Enteritis, or inflammation ot the bowels, was the

cause of death], _


Bullfinch. (Mr. W. G. Percival). [This bird had received an injury to the

end of its beak, which was fractured at its junction with the skull.

The cause of the eye being swollen, was extravasated blood into the

orbit]. _


Parson Finch. (Miss Woods). Died in a few hours after purchase.

[Concussion of the brain caused death],


Russ’ Weaver. (Mr. R. Phillipps). In owner’s possession three years;

quite well until three weeks before it died; it became less lively and

sometimes puffy. [Congestion of the lungs was the cause of death ; it

also had fatty degeneration of the liver].



Young Budgerigar. (Mr. C. P. Arthur). Just left nest. [Death was due

to pressure on the brain, resulting from extensive extravasation of

blood over left side of head, caused by an injury].



WHITE Ibis. (Lady Sutton). .Seemed in usual health when fed in morning,

but was found dead in the afternoon. [Death was caused by external

violence, there being extensive extravasations of blood over the region

of the abdomen, neck, and head].



Cordon Bleu. (Honble. T,illa de Yarburgh Bateson). [Immediate

cause of death was congestion of the lungs. Inability to reproduce

feathers on the head was doubtless due to constitutional debility. The

deformity of the beak was caused by an injury at the base, which

prevented the normal production of bone-structure].


Californian Quail. (Mrs. Stanyforth). [Death was caused by tubercu¬

losis of the liver, bowels, and lungs].



