182 
7*osf Mortem I?cports. 
forty yellowish brown Finches apparently of both sexes, and about a dozen 
other finches unidentified. We hope to receive another consignment early 
in July principally Tanagers and Sugar Birds with about fifty small Finches. 
R.S. 
Post-Mortem Reports. 
(Vide Rules). 
/'''()/• rrplics hi/ (I J'i'r III' S^. 6(1. iinisf he unit; lli/n riilr iriU mil he 
lirnl.'eii under iiiif/ CD/ii/i/iiiii. 
Posl-.U'ir/riii Tii'imrlK rin mil if ufipear in iiert ixxiie irlieii hnilien are rerei reil 
III/ Mr. (i mil prior to the Jlst iif inii/ niiuitli. 
Two Young Two-coloured Parrot Finches (^Tainice Amsler). 
Acute intl;inini:it ion of li\ci' and coii<,'est on of the spleen, pi'obal>ly of infec- 
tious oii^in. 
Gouldian Finch (Miss (\ II. Lorgdon). Acute infl;inimaiion of liver 
and spleen, piob.ibly of infectious origin. 
Cordon Bleus. (The lion. M. C. Hawke). Cause of death, pneu- 
monia. 
Violet Tanager ^ (]\Iiss Lydia Clare). Cause of death, fatty degener- 
ation of liver, which was also the seat of hemorrhage. 
Budgerigar g (Miss L. Peacock'. Cause of death, pneumonia. 
Grassfinch s (W. Edmunds). Cause of death, pneumonia. 
Canary ? (T. R. Hadlej-)- On examination I found this bird to have 
an enlarged spleen, possibly due to bird fever. 
Answered hy jiost. — Mrs. G. Bourke. 
I destroyed to-day (June 6th) a Goldfinch mule suffering from epil- 
epsy that had been in its owner's possession 15 years. Last week I made a 
post mortem examination of an African (Jrey Parrot that had been in its 
owner's possession 35 years. Its liver, spleen, and lungs were crammed with 
nodules, but in which no tubercle bacilli could be detected. 
It irould, greatly help me to elucidate eontaijiinis diseayes in hirds if mem- 
bers of F.B.C. were in sending me dead hirds to state the source they obtained 
the birds from and irheii. The names of the sellers would be kept a secret. 
Hknkv Gray, M.R.C V.S. 
