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appearance. The other organs (liver, spleen and kidneys) appeared 
to be normal. From the lung A. fumigatus was obtained. 
In 1913, Archibald describes a case of aspergillosis in the Sudan 
ostrich. The lesions were in the lungs and bronchioles. The upper 
portion of the bronchus was lined with dark, granular-looking masses 
which projected into the lumen. They were friable but firmly ad- 
herent to the wall. There were several plaques raised from the sur- 
face. These consisted, for the most part, of dense fibrous tissue with 
the granular amorphous areas devoid of cellular elements. Within 
these were mycelial filaments. Many of them showed branching and 
club-shaped dilations at their extremities. Morphologically it was 
not unlike Aspergillus fumigatus. Jowett describes a pulmonary 
mycosis in an ostrich in which the lung was thickly sprinkled with 
nodules that upon section exhibited three zones, a necrotic center, a 
deeply stained infiltrated zone and surrounding this an area in which 
the air cells were still more or less pervious. These areas contained 
spores (conidia). 
Aspergillosis is somewhat prevalent in poultry and pigeons, espec- 
ially those that are forcibly fed. This fungus sometimes finds its way 
into the eggs and causes them to decay promptly on incubation. In 
infected incubated eggs more or less developed dead embryo chicks 
may be found. The infection of the egg is supposed to be by means 
of the spores passing through the pores of the shell. Hoare states 
that “the microscopical examination of sections of the decalcified shell 
shows an abundance of branched fertile mycelia on the free face of the 
shell membrane, and a compact felted mass of luxurious mycelia 
infiltrating the whole thickness of this membrane, and penetrating the 
interstices of the albuminoid meshwork of the shell.” 
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