Correspondence , Notes, etc.



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RAIN OUAILS.


Sir,—I n my letter, asking how to treat Rain Quails during Winter,

line 14, page 234, should read “ preventing her feeding” not breeding. The

fault may be mine.


The chief point which my letter was meant to convey was, if the

cock prevented the hen from feeding, and pecked at her spitefully, why

did she mope away and die when taken away from the bully ?


The Chinese Painted Quails are easy enough to keep all the year

round. The others do not die from fright or make a fuss when I go to

feed them or clean out the cage.


I bought the first pair of Rain Quails about September 15th, 1902. I

had seen them in a shop for quite a fortnight before, with their heads all

knocked about. .Seeing that they seemed otherwise healthy, I bought

them. The cock I have still, but the hens have died as above. They were

tame enough to take mealworms from my fingers through the wires of the

cage. H. L. SlCH.



“ THE AVIARY AND ITS MANAGEMENT.”


Sir,—M ight I draw your attention to two printer’s errors in the

article you were good enough to publish in the last number of the

Avicnltural Magazine on “ The Aviary and its Management.”


(1) On page 226, third paragraph, 9th and iotli lines, instead of “sea

and,” it should read “sea-sand.” (2) On page 228, last sentence of the

article, instead of Allen and Hanbury’s “ Hyno-pliosphates,” it should read

“ Byno-Phospliates.”


I trust that the article has proved interesting to most of the younger

members of the .Society. Jas. Geo. Myran.



Sir, —Dr. J. G. Mvlan in his paper on “The Aviary and its Manage¬

ment ” published in your May issue remarks that birds “ could easily

contract such diseases as typhoid, consumption, and diphtheria.” Other

medical men who have made a special study of bird diseases tell us that

they have never come across a case of typhoid or consumption in a bird.

As a scientific man, it is to be presumed that Dr. Mylan would not have

made the above-quoted remark unless his experience had been different

from theirs, and I therefore venture to ask him, in the interests of the

fascinating science of bird diseases, to give us particulars of the cases in

which he has diagnosed these diseases in birds, and the grounds for his

diagnosis.



Horatio R. Eirrmer.



