. Bird notes . given. Answered by postApril 23rd. Cactus Conure (9), Budgerigar (9): Mrs. M. Read, Lincolnshire.—Both birds were suffering from an acute enteritis ; there was no sign of any lung 24th. Nonpareil Bunting (c?): Mrs. I. Calvocoressi, Liverpool.— Double pneumonia: the bird was much too fat. There was also a fatty degeneration of the 5th. Oyster-Catcher (9): M. T. Tomlinson, Midlothian.—.\cute disease of the kidneys (Nephritis).May 7th. Budgerigar (cD : Walter Potts. Cheshire.—There was a rupture of the large blood vessel from the heart (aorta): the bird died
. Bird notes . given. Answered by postApril 23rd. Cactus Conure (9), Budgerigar (9): Mrs. M. Read, Lincolnshire.—Both birds were suffering from an acute enteritis ; there was no sign of any lung 24th. Nonpareil Bunting (c?): Mrs. I. Calvocoressi, Liverpool.— Double pneumonia: the bird was much too fat. There was also a fatty degeneration of the 5th. Oyster-Catcher (9): M. T. Tomlinson, Midlothian.—.\cute disease of the kidneys (Nephritis).May 7th. Budgerigar (cD : Walter Potts. Cheshire.—There was a rupture of the large blood vessel from the heart (aorta): the bird died of internal hajmorrhage. The heart was twice its normal 13th. Green Singingfinch : Spencer Nairne, Herts.—Answered by i8th. A. H. Barnes, East Putney, —The bird sent was a Serin Finch (9). It died from an acute inflammation of the oviduct and cloeca, a soft-shelled &gg being 28th. Shama (9): Geo. E. Low, Kingstown, Ireland.—Advice given and answered by All Rights Reserved. July and August, 1923 BIRD NOTES. THE Journal of the Foreign Bird Club. The Inveresk Lodge Aviary. By M. R. Tomlinson. By courtesy of Mr. J. D. Brunton, one of our newmembers, I am able to give the following- particulars regardingthe waders aviary recently erected by him at his residence,Inveresk Lodge, Midlothian. The aviary is beautifully situated in a wooded park, and,while receiving abundance of what sunlight is going, is wellsheltered from the north and east by the rising ground on whichthe gardens are laid out, the confines of the park in otherdirections being bounded by large trees. A reference to thephotographs will make the following description clear. Theaviary is formed of half-inch mesh wire-netting, stretched onsubstantial iron circular-section tubular supports, solidly set ina cement kerb. This is sunk in the ground to a depth ofeighteen inches, and a broad ash-path running right round theenclosure is calculated to betray any attempts by ra
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