of Pierre Megnin, the Encydopedie Cadeac, The Dis- 

 eases of Poultry by J. Woodroffe Hill, the Compara- 

 tive Anatomy and* Physiology of Vertebrates by 

 Richard Owen, the Traite de soologie medicale et agri- 

 cole by A. Railliet, Die Krankheiten des Hausge- 

 /?«i?^f/^ by Friedrich Anton Zuern, Neumann's Para- 

 sites and Parasitic Diseases of Domesticated Animals, 

 translated by Fleming, and the bulletins and circulars 

 of tiie Bureau of Animal Industry prepared by Theo- 

 bald Smith, V. A. Moore, C. W. Stiles and A. Has- 

 sall, as well as many valuable articles in the veterinary 

 periodicals. 



If this volume is the means of attracting more at- 

 tention, in this country, to the diseases of birds, if it 

 saves a part of the loss which now occurs from such 

 diseases, and if it serves to mitigate the sufferings of 

 these uncomplaining but highly sensitive creatures, 

 the purpose of the author will be accomplished. 



D. E. Salmon. 



