I98 ACCOUNT Or THE FASCIOLA TRACHEA. 



the body : the colour is red, and the intes- 

 tines, which are extremely numerous and 

 tortuous, are white : the length is about 

 an inch, and the breadth not above half a 

 line. 



Since the preceding was written, I have been 

 informed by my friend Lord Porchester, that 

 three parts of the young pheasants in his Lord- 

 ship's menagery, die of a similar complaint, but 

 at a more advanced age, generally at the time the 

 feathers begin to shew the sexual distinction. 

 This Nobleman favoured me with a specimen for 

 examination, in which the trachea was stuffed 

 with the same species of fasciola. 



I have also had some old partridges lately affect- 

 ed with the same complaint : one that died, was 

 evidently suffocated by these vermes ; and, what 

 is remarkable, the posterior half of one of the 

 worms had got through the membrane of the 

 trachea, — the only instance hitherto noticed of that 

 part being perforated. Change of food, and change 

 of place, together with the infusion of rue and 

 garlic, instead of plain water to drink, and chiefly 

 hemp-seed to eat, independant of the green vegeta- 

 bles which the grass-plot of the menagery afford- 

 ed, recovered the others in a, very short time. 



Dec. 28. i8o8e 



