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POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.



For rules see previous numbers.


All-Green ParrakeeT. (Dr. W. G. Creswell). Died a week after pur¬

chase. [Congestion of lungs was cause of death. It was a cock].



Young Virginian Nightingale. (Honble. M. C. Hawke). [Your bird

died of starvation, no doubt owing to neglect of parents].



Siskin. (Honble. M. C. Hawke). [Extensive contusions about head and

right side of body, from external violence, causing severe shock which

proved fatal],


Red-Throated Whvdah. (Mrs. Noble). It has had a good many fits,

lately, and did not moult properly. [Your bird has, no doubt, been

suffering from fits caused by reflex nerve irritation from indigestion and

malassimilation of its food. The fatal fit was apoplectic : there being a

large blood clot on the brain]. _


Golden-fronted Bulbul. (Lady Carnegie). Caged with another, they

used to fight occasionally. [Bird died of enteritis ; no sign of external

violence. It was a lien]. _


Swainson’S Lorikeet. (Mr. A. A. Pearson). In apparently the sound¬

est of health at 9 a.m. ; fell off the perch at 11 a.m., and died in half

an hour. [Death was due to apoplexy. Your feeding was good, but

probably want of exercise caused the fatal attack].



Virginian Nightingale. (Miss B. Shepherd). Hatched in my aviary

last year; perfectly well over night; in the morning was puffy and

very weak, and soon died. [Death was due to acute inflammation of

the bowels]. _


LONG-TAILED Grassfinch. (Mr. Mathias). One of a pair that had been

sitting on eggs some days. [Died of acute congestion of the lungs].



Chestnut Finch. (Mr. A. Cummings). Purchased a fortnight ago.

[Death was due to apoplexy]. _


Budgerigars, cock and lieu. (Mr. C. P. Arthur). [Cock died of acute

inflammation of the bowels, hen of congestion of liver and lungs.]



Cordon Bleu. (Mr. A. E. Boothroyd). [Apoplexy was the cause of death].


Red-crested Cardinal. (Rev. T. C. Lewis). [Died of intestinal tuber¬

culosis]. _


Budgerigar. (Mr. A. J. Salter). [Your bird died of apoplexy—a very

common disease amongst aviary-bred specimens].


Orange-cheeked Waxbill. (Mr. II. L. Sicli). Died six days after

purchase. [Acute congestion of liver, and jaundice, caused death. Am

afraid you treated too generously].


Zebra Finch, hen. (Mr. Rvcroft). [Concussion of brain, caused by

external injury]. _


COCKATIEL. (Mrs. Noble). Taken ill on 12th Sept., sitting with head

under wing; died on 14th Sept.; slight discharge from nostrils.

[Acute pneumonia was the cause of death]. Arthur Gill.



