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Post Mortem Examinatiojis.



Beack-headed Nun. (Mrs. Robertson). [Your bird died of dysentry.

All unnatural evacuations are deleterious and likely to produce disease

and even death in other birds which may partake of food tainted with

such. It is a difficult thing to explain the germ theory of disease in

language easily understood by those who have uot studied it, and, as I

always endeavour to make the result of my examinations as clear as

possible to the members of our Society, I am sure you will excuse me

going farther with detail, but I should certainly advise all such cases to

be at once isolated. This is a contagious disease, and I would certainly

disinfect cage, etc. that the bird has used].



■Cock Cordon Br,EU. (Capt. Horsbrugli). [Apoplexy].



Madagascar Lovebird. (Miss Hamilton). [Bronchitis].



Budgerigar. (Mr. Archibald Simpson). [I have been consulted on

several occasions as regards Budgerigars dying in numbers in other

breeders’ aviaries. If you will catch up all your young birds about ten

to twelve weeks old, you will find many inordinately fat whilst others

are emaciated. I find from experience this is a very critical period in

the Budgerigar’s life : hence the low price of young birds. When I go

over mine, they are the yellow variety, I separate the thin from the fat

ones. The fat ones I feed chiefly on canary seed, whilst the thin ones

get canary, millet, and hemp, and by this means I lose very few. Your

bird died of apoplexy. Am glad to hear your birds had no soft food,

as this is quite unnecessary].



White Jackdaw. (Lady Lilford). [Pneumonia was cause of death, and

I am afraid the bird has been ill longer than you anticipate].



Cordon Beeu, cock. (Mrs. Noble). [It had a large blood clot on the

brain, from a ruptured blood vessel. Should you have any more birds

die, send them on to me, as I shall be only too pleased to assist you.

Many of the more delicate Waxbills die about this time of the year,

especially when the weather is bad].



Tudgerigar, cock. (Miss Tate). [Died of pneumonia; it was an im

mature cock bird].



Pekin Robin. (Mr. Moerschell). [Pneumonia].



I regret that two or three cases, including one from Mrs. Noble and

one from Mr. Rothera, had to be destroyed, owing to mv having met with

an accident which incompacitated me for several days, but I am now able

to attend to my duties. ARTHUR GILL.



