POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS


Rule 1.—A short account of the illness should accompany the specimen. All

birds to be sent as fresh as possible to Mr. C. H. Hicks, The Zoological Society

of London, Regent’s Park, London, N.W. 8.


Rule 2.—A stamped addressed envelope must be enclosed with the bird.


Rule 3.—No body or skin of any bird will be returned under any circumstances

whatever.



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SALE AND EXCHANGE


Surplus Stock, good condition. Prices per pair, packing and carriage extra :

Geese, White-fronted, £2 10s. ; Maned, £10 ; Bernacle, £3 10s. ; Chinese adult, £1 ;

Young 15s. Ducks, White Call, 15s. ; Common Shelduck, £2 ; Paradise Shelduck,

ducks only, £4 10s. each ; Ruddy Shelduck, ducks only, £2 5s. each; Australian

Shelduck, £18, cocks only, £8 each ; White-eyed Pochard, drakes only, £1 15s.

each. Pheasants, Golden, £2 ; Silvers, 30s.; Reeves, £4 ; Cheers, £10 ; Amhurst,

£5. Sacred Ibis, £10 ; Crown Cranes, £18 ; Lyford (Keeper), The Manor House,

Ditton Hill, Surbiton.


Pheasants.—E lliot, Swinhoe, Reeves, Golden, for sale.—S pencer, Yew

Court, Scalby, Yorks.


Australian Bronzwing Pigeons, two young hens for sale, 30s. ; three cock

Crested Ground Doves, 35s. each.—Dr. C. H. Macklin, Ampthill, Beds.


Few pairs rare and beautiful Jamaican Doves, including White-bellied (L.

jamaicensis ), £3 pair; Pea (Z. zenaida), 35s. pair; Ground ( C . passerinajamaicensis),

tiniest of known doves, 30s. pair ; full description, Avtcultural Magazine, March,

1936.—C. H. Heal, Stanley Villa, Paulton, Somerset.


African Grey Parrot, fine bird, in excellent form; calls names, whistles,

and imitates animals, age 8 years, cost £24 ; seen by appointment. What offers ?—

Mrs. Matthews, Sardenfield, Camberley, Surrey.


Spectacted Laughing Thrush from Canton, hand reared, beautiful singer, £5.

Ruby-throated Nightingale from Canton, very tame, £4. Pair Luzon Hanging

Parrakeets, £8 ; Eclectus Parrot, male, from Banda, £5 ; Lotens Sunbird, hand

reared, £8 ; Ceylon Scopss Owl, hand reared, good condition, £8 ; pair Double-

collared Sunbirds, £5 .—Chaplin, Orchard House, Copthorne, Sussex.


WANTED


Young unrelated pair of Mandarin Ducks.—Particulars to W. A. Jones,

54 Stockwell Park Road, London, S.W. 9.



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