602 DISEASE IN WILD MAMMALS AND BIRDS 
pletely close them. There were no lesions elsewhere on 
the body, none of the other turkeys were similarly affected 
and though watched, none have since developed a similar 
condition. Histological examination shows a keratosis, 
many of the cells showing characteristic '' molluscum 
bodies " which appear the same and behave the same 
tinctorially as the human examples. This turkey case 
differs from the human, however, in that there are none 
of the pocket-like epithelial extensions deep down into 
the corium and this turkey case may be very useful in the 
further study which is contemplated to show that such 
tilings as molluscum bodies are not sufficient of them- 
selves to stamp a dermatosis as a pathological entity, but 
that they are general pathological processes which may 
occur in a number of different diseases. The disease has 
been reported in sparrows, pigeons, but never so far as 
I can find, in turkeys. 
A few isolated cases of infectious disease are included 
here as a matter of record although they may not be espe- 
cially significant or important. Rabies was found in a 
pair of deer which had been bitten by a stray dog. The 
period of excitement was relatively long, while the para- 
lytic stage was only a few hours. Negri bodies were 
found. Tetanus killed a Persian Wild Ass {Equus 
onager) the infection wound seeming to be a bruised and 
abraded area on the rump. From the contused muscle 
tetanus bacilli were isolated. A gas-bacillus infection, 
emanating from the vagina which was protuberant and 
lacerated because of injury by mates, was seen in a preg- 
nant llama (Llama lama.) On two occasions nodular 
masses have been found under the skin of seals, not unlike 
the one studied by Doctor Wiedman and thought by him 
to be due to moulds. These two have, however, failed to 
show mycelia or yeast-like bodies, and one thinks only of 
placing them in the group of botryomycosis. I have never 
seen a case of this disease, so that I am forced to rely upon 
literature, a method that inspires no especial confidence 
