CONTENTS 



SECTION I. PAGE 



Anatomy ^^ 



Review of the Anatomy of the Hen. 



SECTION II. 

 Sanitatiox ^^ 



SECTION III. 



External Parasites ^^ 



Lice of Birds— Lice of Chickens— Lice of Turkeys- 

 Lice of Ducks— Lice of Geese— Lice of Pigeons— Life 

 History of Lice— Effects of Louse Infestation— Dealing 

 With Louse Infestation— Scabies in Birds— Scaly Legs 

 — Sarcoptes Mutans— Air Sac Disease— Cytodites 

 Nudus— Chigger Infestation— Trombidium Holoseri— 

 ceum— Dermanyssus Gallinse— Fleas Affecting Birds— 

 Pulex Avium— Tick Infestation— Argus Miniatus— 

 The Bedbug of Poultry— Acanthia Inodora— Fungi Af- 

 fecting Birds— Thrush— Tinea Favosa— Pneumomyco- 

 sis. 



SECTION IV. 



Internal Parasites ^^ 



Important Round Worms — Ascaris Inflexa — Heter- 

 akis Papulosa — Spiroptera Hamulosa — Syngamus 

 Trachealis — Unimportant Round Worms — Heterakis 

 Differens— Heterakis Compressa—Trichosomum— Het- 

 erakis Maculosa— Tape Worms— Taenia Infundibuli- 

 formis- Davainea Tetragona— Thorn-Headed Worms — 

 Other Taenia- Echinorynchus Polymorphus— Flukes. 



SECTION V. 



Disease of the Digestive Tract 73 



Obstruction of the Beak— Stomatitis— Crop Bound— 

 Tympany of the Crop— Gangrene of the Crop — Catarrh 

 of the Crop — Depraved Appetite — Fowl Cholera — 

 Blackhead— Diarrhea— White Diarrhea— Blastomyco- 

 sis of the Pigeon— Coccidiosis of Wild Ducks— Arseni- 

 cal Poisoning— Ptomain Poisoning— Corn Cockle Poi- 

 soning — Salt Poisoning — Cloacitis. 



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