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Table of Causes of Death (cont.). 



Causes of Death. 



Nervous System. 

 Convulsions ? cause 



Paraly si s ? cause 



Delayed shock 



Mammals 



Acute Infections. 



Tuberculosis 



Mj'cosis 



Septicaemia 



General serositis 



Helminthiasis 



Osteomyelitis of jaw 



Peritonitis 



Protozoal infection . . . 

 Tick infection 



Malignant disease. 

 Carcinoma of thyroid 



Sarcoma of liver 



Carcinoma of liver . . . . 



13 



20 

 1 

 4 

 1 

 1 



Birds 



31 



26 



Dii^ease of Thyroid. 

 Adenomatous cyst 

 Colloid ffoitre 



Miscellaneous. 

 Inanition ? cause 



Rickets 



Scurvy ? 



Asphyxia 



Drowned 



Exposure 



Killed 



Under antesthetic 

 Destroyed bj' rats 



Not diagnosed 



Not examined 



Decomposed 



Reptiles, 

 etc. 



Numbers 

 referring to 



Notes. 



19 

 1 



3 

 21 

 14 



1 

 1 

 1 



79 



ii 



13 



7 

 34 



21 



1 



12 

 25 

 65 



8 







10 

 11 



12 

 13 

 14 



15 

 16 



17 



Explanatory Notes on the Causes of Death. 



1. One case was that of a hysena. A sharp piece of bone had 



perforated the stomach, the diaphragm, and pleura so 

 that the gastric contents had escaped into the pleural 

 cavity. 

 The other case was that of a Napu mouse-deer. 



2. In a rufous-tailed fire-back pheasant. 



3. Both of these cases were birds of prey which had over- 



gorged themselves. 



4. In a green cercopitheque. 



5. These were small craterous ulcers in the rumen of a gazelle. 



There was also one ulcer in the reticulum, 



6. This was in a Caucasian ibex, 



7. In a bear* 



