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sprinkled with fine lime, or sprinkled with the prepai*- 

 ation used. The walls should be whitewashed. 



SCALY LEGS. 



Scaly legs is a very common disease; it is due to a 

 parasite, the ''Sarcoptes Mutans," which burrows 

 under the scales and multiplies very rapidly. 



The disease is shown by a rough, scabby deposit on 

 the legs, caused by yellowish exudate drying, and 

 forming a crust. 



Treatment: The legs should be soaked in warm, 

 soapy water; then rubbed with a brush, so as to remove 

 the scales and expose the parasite; then, either of the 

 remedies given for * 'Mange" may be applied or, a 

 very effectual ointment may be made by mixing a tea- 

 spoonful each of oil of tar and sulphur with a table- 

 spoonful of clean, unsalted lard; this should be applied 

 every other day. If the disease is general, the same 

 sanitary precautions should be resorted to as are rec- 

 ommended for Mange. 



LICE, MITES, ETC. 



There are no less than thirty-five or forty different 

 varieties, some being very annoying, others not so 

 much. 



Some affect the skin by gnawing; others suck the 

 blood; while some live on the feathers and scales of 

 the skin; these latter, of course, do not annoy the bird 

 nearly so much as those that irritate or gnaw the skin. 

 Still others are found in the air sacks to which we 

 have referred in the article on Pneumycosis. 



