Correfffonrlcvce. 
thoy wore both males, and rathor Tinint-crosling birds at that. But 
sinc " theiT I have changod my opinion ! 
In Fcbniarv of this yc:ir I drcidi'd In Id :ill niy i)irds llv loose 
in lb.' s]);iri' rooTii (^about 14 fiM'l \ 111 li'd), \viii<'li 1 lilted' uj) «ilii 
brniiehes loeo-niil husks, and a hii-gi' tree trunk with branches nailed 
on completed tile furniture. The day I kd, the Tanagers out I thought 
thoy would sundy beat themselves to death against the windows, hut 
throiigh mixing with the other birds they calmed down sf)niewhal, but 
m-vi'.- hi'i'iinie tiim<' enough to eat in my presence. 
.Vb(uil Ihi' middle of JNIarch I was d(dighted to see that a nest 
had bdii built in a corner, on a twig near the ceiling, and concluded 
that it belonged to the Pokiii Robins, and at ouc Uiiilcd up ivy and 
evi'rgrecns to form a -screen. The u;'xt day ]iutting my hand into rh(^ 
nesi I discovered two pale brown eg'^s ; still in ignorance as to ihcir 
owner 1 wailed, and to my great surprise Ihe smaller of Ihc l3luc 
Tanagers llew hidiind the ivy. Mj' visits to the room after this were 
few and far bi'lween, as the hen would tly olT the nest every time the 
door handle was turned. Fiflei'u days later I looked into the nest and 
there bi hcdil tiirec lit tle opt^n Ix-aks . Food was m3'' next anxiety and 
T supplie(' meiilworms and gr(^enfly, but 1 attribute my roaring of them 
so far to the Sugarbird's mixture and sponge cako, which is adminis- 
ti'red til one hy the mother and the other by the father. 
I might mention that six days afh'r hatching, I found a dead 
chick on the window sill, whithi'r il hail bi-en carried — a distance of three 
3'ards — b3' the mother . 
Siventeen days after hatching on making my morning visit, I 
fouml ;i. little blue stranger silting on the ivy about the nest, the 
other making it.s appearimce on the floor later in the day. In plumagi^ 
they arc exact replicas of their parents except for their tails being 
fan-shaped . 
I propose sending a photo of them in a day or two. and mean- 
while the heii is again nesting. 
Twickenham, l/6/'15. (Mrs.) ALICE SPEAKEll. 
« 
Post Mortem Reports. 
Vide Nnhs, see pace II. of cover. 
\i>vsi; (iiiKV r.\i;i!i)'J' . (. Lady Websler, liattlc). The cau.se 
of death was yj.svV/r/ro.v/.v, commonly known as the septic fever 'of Parrots, 
which ha.^ b -en asserted by various authorities to give rise in man to 
a special epidemie in the form of pneumonia. This view, advatued by 
several eminent physicians, has been controverted by vetcrinarj' author- 
ities, who look upon the connection as a mere coincident. This disea.sa 
has been the cause of great mortality of young Parrots imported this 
spring. In this bird there was inten.se haemorrhagic enteritis, the blood 
clots in the form of a lyliiuler coui])b'tely distending and occluding the 
lumen of the gut. 
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