172 FROM BLOMIDON TO SMOKY. 



Keviving, she drank some syrup and seemed bet- 

 ter, but the spasms recurred at frequent inter- 

 vals during the day. She kept her head moving 

 up and down a great deal of the time. When 

 a spasm was imminent, she turned her head 

 far around to the left, and, with her neck thus 

 twisted, spun around towards the left seven or 

 eight times, then fell upon the floor and beat her 

 head upon it. After most of these spasms she 

 drank from her cup, and during the day she ate 

 four flies which I gave her. The last attack 

 was at 5.30 P. M., and not long after she was 

 found dead. I placed her body in the hands 

 of several graduate students in biology at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, and received 

 from one of them, Dr. Thomas G. Lee, the 

 following statement : " We found the intestines 

 quite empty. In the stomach, which was deeply 

 bile-stained, was a ball composed of cotton fibres 

 and containing fragments of insects. The liver 

 was very large, deeply bile-stained, and very 

 soft. The other organs were apparently normal." 

 The body was plump, and large deposits of fat 

 covered the abdomen. 



On Sunday, October 18, Number One, who 

 had been dull for a day or two, showed symptoms 

 similar to those of Number Three. He had 

 several convulsions and was weak after them. 

 I gave him lemon juice. For several days I had 



