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Post-Mortem Reports. 
Australian Finches. Recently a fairly large consignment of these 
much soiiivht after and interesting species, have come to hand. Very probably 
however, by the time these lines are in print, most of them will have been 
disposed of ; they consist of the following : 
Chestnut Finches. Masked Grassfinches 
Gouldian ,, Longtailed „ 
Parson „ Sydney Waxbills. 
AH are being offered at reasonable prices, and should be worth our 
members consideration. W.T.P. 
Post-Mortem Reports. 
(Vide Rules). 
Far rpplies h// poxf, a fee of 2s. 6(1. must he sent; this i-pi/iihit/nn mil/ not he 
hrokeii wider any condiiinn. 
Post-Mortem Reports can only appear in next issue when they are received 
hy Mr. Gray prior to the 31st of any month. 
Tuberculosis: Fennani- Pakkakeet. A member of the Foreign 
Bird Clul) sent a male Pennant Parrakeet for a post-mortem examination. 
The following is the history forwarded : The bird was one of a pair and had 
been ailing oft and on for about three months. At one time the owner 
thought he had cured it, but about a fortnight ago there came a relapse and 
the bird died yesterday. The owner pointed out a growth over the eye. 
The Pennants were kept in the same aviary as some Budgerigars, and 
have had the same food exactly as they have had, viz. : white oats, white and 
spray millet, white sunflower seed, and the " leavings " of the more expensive 
seeds from the Finches. The Pennants have never had access to milk. 
The hen Pennant is perfectly healthy. The pair were separated from the 
time the dead bird was first taken ill. One of the Budgerigars (a hen) flies 
with difficulty, but this has been so for some months, and is due, the owner 
thinks, to injury received and not to disease, as it was so before the Pennants 
arrived from a fancier. 
The dead bird was very much emaciated and in consequence its breast- 
bone was very prominent. There were some yellow tubercular bodies 
under the skin of the occiput, the posterior angle of right ramus of lower 
mandible, in the naso-palatine region and at the root of right lung, the anterior 
two-thirds of which were the seat of {tneumonia. Thei'e was also a tubercle 
in the vicinity of the left carotid artery on a level with the syrinx. On the 
left upper eyelid there was a small wart-like gi'owth. The left abdominal 
air-sac, on its internal surface, was lined with a yellowish exdate. The liver 
and other organs were free from tubercles. 
The conclusion I came to was, that it was a case of tuberculosis, and 
on microscopical examination I discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis. 
The remains were ;ifterwards sent to Sir John McFadyean, Royal 
Veterinary College, Camden Town, N.W., who informed me " Tubercle 
bacilli were very numerous in lesions in Parrakeet." 
