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Correspondence.



THE LETTERED ARACARI, ORIOLES, ETC.


(Seep. 32;.


Sir, —You will, I am sure, be glad to hear that the Lettered Aracari

is much better now.


He got very bad after I last wrote, would hardly eat anything—just a

little banana—and sat all fluffed up with eyes closed panting hard. He had

very bad dysentery, and did not digest his food in the least; he drank a

great deal. I gave him the squills and “ hippo wine ” in his drinking

water, and also occasionally raw meat juice, as he would not eat meat or

mealworms. He kept getting worse and worse for about eight days, when

I thought he would not live many hours, and as a kill or cure gave him au

egg-spoonful of Epsom salts in water; in about an hour he seemed better

and ate a little bread and milk, and ever since has been steadily improving,

and eating well.


I now give him a mixture of egg, breadcrumbs, and potato, pretty

moist, for he will not eat it at all dry; also cut up banana, sweet grapes

split, and squills in the drinking water. He got back the dysentery on the

bread and milk diet, but I cured it at once with five drops of chlorodine in a

wine glass of water; a few sips twice a da) r cured him at once. He is now

quite lively and tight feathered, croaks and plumes himself all day long,

but the snuffling keeps as bad as ever in his nostrils ; how could I cure

this ?


Our Sykes’ Oriole has now just begun to moult; it will be rather

exciting watching him. We are putting up a radiator in his room to warm

it better.


Mary F. Rathborne.


The following reply toas sent to Mrs. Rathborne.


Possibly, if Mrs. Rathborne were to try a few drops of paregoric, that

might dry up the catarrh ; or there is a new preparation called Glyco-

Thermoline, that I have found decidedly useful in some cases where I used

it diluted as a nasal douche ; but it may also be taken internally, say ten

drops in a tablespoonful of water for drinking, a few sips at a time.


W. T. Greene.



WINTERING COCKATOOS, ETC.


Sir, — I have had two Great Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, two Rosy-

breasted Cockatoos, and one Bauer Parrakeet, each summer for about

ten years, flying loose in an outdoor aviary, 24ft. by 6ft., by 8ft. high,

all open wire work, and facing south. At the north end there is an

enclosure of brick 8ft. by 6ft., by Sft. high. My birds each winter have been

moved into a wire enclosure in my conservatory.



