no Post Mortem Examinatio7is .


birds which fell from his facile and graceful pen. Moreover, for

many years he was the main supporter in this department of The

Feathered World ; and his connection in the same branch with

The Bazaar was, if I mistake not, maintained until the day of

his death. Thus it came about that his name was, and, indeed,

still is, a household word, far and wide, in the mouths of

thousands upon thousands of aviculturists — mostly embryonic

it may be for these advanced days, tyros who may be looked

down upon with scorn by the modern "scientist," but who,

nevertheless, form the body of the multitude who keep birds.

Some of us, in our wisdom, thought him out of date, quite

forgetting that in his time foreign bird keeping was practicall}'

in its infancy. He it was who laid the foundation ; and we,

upstarts of but yesterday, rear our superstructure on the

foundation which was laid by him years before we were even

heard of. The Bird World is greatly in his debt ; — and, in my

opinion at any rate, it is no exaggeration to say that no one has

done more to popularize the keeping of foreign birds in this

country, and to make so familiar to us a great number of foreign

species, as Dr. W. T. Greene, who has now at last laid down his

well-worn pen. Reginald Phillipps.



THE SOCIETY'S MEDAL.

Medals have been granted to the following members for

successfully rearing young (it is believed for the first time in the

United Kingdom) of the species named : —


Mr. W. E. Teschemaker, the Red-headed Finch (Amadina eryihrocephalus).

Mrs. Johnstone, Johnstone's Lorikeet {Tricholossus johnstonice).

Mr. W. H. St. OuinTin, the Pine Grosbeak (Pyrrhula enucleator).

Mr. J. H. Gurney, the Jackal Buzzard (Buteo jackal).

Mr. E. J. Brook, the White-eared Connre (Pyrrhura leucoiis).



POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.


Brown-throated Conure (Mr. Williams). The bird died of pneumonia.

It was a hen. The reason that it could not fly was that, at some time,

it had fractured the large bone of the right wing and the muscles were

much wasted.


(Mr. E. J. Brook). The bird died of concussion of the brain >


caused by direct injur)'.


Answered by post :


Lady Ingram, Mr. C. Castle-Sloaue, Mr. W. H. St. Quintin,

The Rt. Hon. Mary, Countess of Lovelace, Mrs. Noble.



