. Bird notes . nto my possession withIm the tip of the upper mandible broken ^ It managed, however, to break its seed fairly-^ well, and I turned it into an outdoor aviary with some other finches. After about three months Inoticed that the bird was beginning to droop. I caughtand examined it, and found it to be absolutely swarm-ing with lice, of which there must have been lice were large, whitish and about i-20th of aninch in length. They swarmed round the insertion ofevery feather, and some half-dozen had ensconcedthemselves in the folds of the conjunctiva betweeneye and lid
. Bird notes . nto my possession withIm the tip of the upper mandible broken ^ It managed, however, to break its seed fairly-^ well, and I turned it into an outdoor aviary with some other finches. After about three months Inoticed that the bird was beginning to droop. I caughtand examined it, and found it to be absolutely swarm-ing with lice, of which there must have been lice were large, whitish and about i-20th of aninch in length. They swarmed round the insertion ofevery feather, and some half-dozen had ensconcedthemselves in the folds of the conjunctiva betweeneye and lid. The whole condition was horrible in theextreme. I examined some of the lice under themicroscope, and a drawing of an entire animal andone limb is here reproduced. Obviously the bird was unable, from the condi-tion of the beak, though otherwise healthy, toproperly prune itself and keep down the insect 40 plague. The case is interesting from this iDoint ofview as showing the importance to a bird of its* One limb (High powerl.
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