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•we feel assured that the general opinion will be, that they oomi)are 
very favauxa'bly with any we have hitherto issued, both as to interest 
and quality. We hope to issue the first with Pe'bruary Bird Notts. 
■Brebdino Medals: The Awards' Committee have f,Tatitt!d 
medals for the breeding- of the undermentioned Species and Hybrids 
for the first time in Great Britain, as follows: 
Species: - Gr.e,at Tit: Dr. M. Amsler. 
liineolated Parrakeet: Miss M. E. Baker. 
Chajtteirinig Lory: Lady Poltimore. 
Orange Weaver: Lady Poltimore. 
HYBRiDS.~Gre,at Nigerian Yellow X Short-winged Weaver: 
W. Shore Baily. 
Blue-hreastetl Wax'bill X Cordon Bleu: Dr. M. 
Amsler. 
Jendaya x Golden -crowned Conure: I^ady Poltimore. 
WESLEY T. PAGE, Hon. Editor. 
S. WILLIAMS, Hon. Business Sec. & Treas. 
♦ 
Post Mortem Reports. 
V/(Ip RuIpx (See Pane Hi of Cover.) 
Dead Birds fob Post Mortem Examixation Eejeived dlring ttik 
JM'ONTH ARE EBPORTED UPON IN THE POLT-OWIXG IsSCJE OF 
"Bird Notes." 
Yellow -winged Sugarbikd (Oi. (^Mrs. G. Christie, Elgin, 
M'ora,yshire. Eeceived on Decem'ber 10th; died of pneumonia, which 
cajinot very well be avoided in an ever chajigieable climate like 
ours. 
Masked Gbassfinch. (G. Scott Freeland, Tonhridge). Cause 
of death, pneumonia. I have never found Inger (Nigjea-) seed 
injurious and have fed Finches, which have lived on it for years. 
Red -CRESTED Cardinal (9). (B. HaJnilton Scott, Ipswoch). 
Cause of death, aspergillary caseous pneumonia, due to the fungus -4s- 
pergillus fumigatm. This is a common cause of death of Cardinals. 
I have fully described this disea>se in Vol. I. of H care's System o/ 
Veterinary Medicine. In Canaries as well as Cardinals it often 
givies rise to tlie so-called asthma and also the " gaping-disease " "which 
reisembles in symptoms " gapes " or pai'asitic bronchitis. Iodine ol 
potasium and liquor arsenicalis if given in time in the drinking water 
may bring about a cure. But 'generally the disease is far advanced 
beifore one "observed any synaptotos. No species ^f bird is exempt. 
It hi rai'er in mammals. It frequently causes in pigeons " canker " 
or myootic stomatitis, which has been conveyed to 'pigeon -crammers 
and otheirs. The Aspergillus jumigatus is commonly found on all 
kinds of grain, straw, hay, etc., , and particularly when musty or 
