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has been lined with a clean linen rag, they will be replaced, 

 and the nest located in its former place. The female im- 

 mediately returns to her young, 4& 

 dries them by the warmth of her 

 body, and, after a few hours, they |jP 

 are as woolly as before, and II 

 greedily open their beaks. This if 

 process must, in the most un- dL^ 

 favourable cases, be continued on I 

 every alternate day, up to the I 

 tenth ; and by that time both I 

 the old and the young birds will 1 

 be completely restored to health 

 and cheerfulness. A 



BATH PINCERS. 



Liver-Complaints.— Causes : Bad, spoiled food, and 

 overcrowding of the nesting-places. Symptoms : The so- 

 called "liver-spots," want of appetite, fading of the plumage. 

 If the spots are small, the abdomen not puffed up, and the 

 bird is still continuing to sing, then it does not matter 

 much. Dry food should be given in such cases, and the 

 bird should not be used for breeding, for it will have 

 diseased young. But if large spots of a violet-brown colour 

 are noticeable, extending broadly across the body, especially 

 over the right side of it, then the liver is inflamed and 

 swollen, and the bird can hardly be saved. In the Hartz, 

 birds suffering from that disease are kept very warm, and 

 are fed with poppy-seed, linseed, and a little rape-seed. The 

 young which come from such birds are generally diseased 

 even in the egg, and rarely attain maturity. The liver- 

 disease easily develops, both in young and old birds, into 

 the contagious abdominal inflammation, spoken of previously. 



Jaundice. — Cause : Unsuitable, or too abundant feed- 

 ing ; and owing to intestinal catarrh, the passnge by which 



