7 8 Aviary Pheasants. 



sides. Then make a brick quite hot, place the box 

 over it, and drop about five or six drops of carbolic 

 acid on the brick. When the fumes arise, place the 

 bird in the box, close the lid for a few seconds, and, 

 on removal to the fresh air, the patient should be none 

 the worse, and the worm destroyed. 



Scaly Legs. The best plan is to rub oft the rough 

 scurf, even if it makes the leg bleed. Glycerine 

 applied to the place where the scurf has been is a 

 good remedy ; sulphur ointment is also a useful appli- 

 cation. The disease often arises from the silky hens 

 under which the pheasants are reared. Versicolors 

 are afflicted with this disease more frequently than 

 any other variety I have kept ; but attention and clean- 

 liness will soon cure it. 



Roup. Follow the same treatment as for fowls. 

 Keep the birds in a warm, dry place. If you have young 

 birds affected with this ailment in wet seasons, feed 

 them on toast steeped in ale, keep their eyes and 

 nostrils well sponged with very weak vinegar and 

 water, and you will hardly lose a bird. They must 

 be very liberally fed with most nourishing food. 

 Roup is undoubtedly the result of severe cold, and 

 nothing but warmth and stimulating food will enable 

 a pheasant to survive it; otherwise the bird dies of 

 weakness and exhaustion. The first sign is slight 

 swelling of the head ; then a froth appears at the 

 corner of the eye : this arises from the passage to 

 the nostrils being choked. Next, this froth becomes 

 thicker, takes the form of matter, and is offensive. 



