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rid of mice is with the Liverpool Virus, to be had of any chemist. This

has cleared mine and done no harm to anything else. W. H. Foster.



Miss B. McDonald writes : —


"In answer to the request of the Hon. Mary Hawke, perhaps she

would like to know how I have kept my Shama. I have had him now for

eight years, and he is as well now and sings almost better (by day or gas-

light) than when I first had him.


I feed him on the following mixture : equal parts of cooked meat

(never salt meat), hard boiled egg, boiled carrot, breadcrumbs, all ver} r finely

chopped; and on alternate days I give him either Hyde's or Spratt's Lark

Food, which he seems very fond of. Also he has four or five mealworms a

day and a bath every day (hike- warm during the winter). I give some ants'

eggs now and then dry, and in the summer he has some live ants' eggs,

which are greatly appreciated, and all the insects I can get, especially blue-

bottles and spiders. I feed all my insectivorous birds in this way, and I

think it must suit them, as I have had one of my Thrushes for eleven years.


The Shama is kept in a large wire flight cage, about 32 inches long

and 18 inches broad, in a warm room, but I always put a flannel cover on

one side of his cage to keep all draughts away. I consider these birds very

hardy, the only thing likely to upset them being draughts and an insufficient

supply of meat and insects.


He has escaped twice since I have had him ; once into the garden,

where he sang all day on top of a fir tree, but at night came back into his

cage of his own accord, not having been able to find any food for himself.

He will always answer me, if I call him by his name, ' Ranji.' "



THE SOCIETY'S MEDAL.



A silver medal has been awarded to Mrs. Johnstone for

the successful breeding, in her aviary, of Fraser's Touracou

(Turaciis macroi hynchus), this being the first case on record of any

Touracou rearing young in Great Britain.


A medal has been awarded to Mr. W. E. Teschemaker for

successfully rearing young of the Yellow-rumped Finch (Mimia

flaviprymna), for the first time in the United Kingdom.



POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS.



Tricolour Tanager. (Mr. Watson). Acute enteritis was cause of death.

Scarlet and Superb Tanagers. (Miss Wilde). Both birds died of con-

cussion of brain, caused by direct injury to their skulls.

Mr. D. Seth-Smith and Mrs. Johnstone answered by post.



