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acid of "salycil" mixed with water (1'500). Relief is 

 afforded when the bird is kept in warm and damp air, luke- 

 warm w T ater being sprinkled around him several times a day, 

 while the room will be heated to about 18*24 deg., Reaumur 

 or Fahrenheit. The most delicate amongst the songsters are 

 often attacked by hoarseness, owing to their singing too 

 loud and too assiduously. In such a case, the bird is taken 

 into a separate room, or, where there are no other singing- 

 birds, his cage may be simply darkened. Both methods 

 will prevent the continuance of his song. It has also been 

 found serviceable by some to give raw egg with sugar, 

 pounded barley or malt sugar in water, or egg-food, or a 

 meal-worm dipped in oil ; but these methods are not backed 

 by adequate experience, so that I can only leave it to the 

 option of the reader to make experiments. Hoarseness and 

 shortness of breath may also be the consequence of excessive 

 obesity. In that case the bird should be deprived of egg- 

 food, biscuit, and all other nourishing food, and should be 

 kept for several weeks on rape-seed and green herbs only. 

 Lastly, it is said that, in the case of the delicate Hartz birds, 

 hoarseness may also be produced by feeding them with 

 canary-seed. A continuance of the subject will be found in 

 the part treating of Consumption. 



Inflammation of the Lungs. —Symptoms : A smack- 

 ing noise, difficult or quick breathing, with a whistling 

 sound, and the beak wide open, a hot breast, melancholy, 

 absence of appetite, a clearly perceptible fever, painful 

 cough, ejection of yellow phlegm, sometimes streaked with 

 blood, and the smacking or panting sound particularly 

 audible in the evening and during silence. Remedies : 

 Warm, damp air, as explained before in catarrh, pills of 

 carbonate of ammoniac (a OO'l gr.), with powder of 

 "Althea" and water. A small pill to be given at a time, 

 twice or three times a day; or purified saltpetre (0"102- 



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