. Bird notes . — not what might be expectedfrom an animal painter. A picture of Grouse by Henry Stannard () A Hielan Clan is a carefully drawn moorlandscene with some very weak Grouse in it. If theGrouse are like this in life, I dont wonder that theyget disease. Tiie colour is not bad, though I cannotsay that it is actually good. However, we may beglad the accessories are well studied, as that does notgenerally occur in the work of the natural history artists. 82 No. 952, another Magpie picture, is very likeNo. 781, the birds looking as if they had been drawnfrom stuffed specimens. There
. Bird notes . — not what might be expectedfrom an animal painter. A picture of Grouse by Henry Stannard () A Hielan Clan is a carefully drawn moorlandscene with some very weak Grouse in it. If theGrouse are like this in life, I dont wonder that theyget disease. Tiie colour is not bad, though I cannotsay that it is actually good. However, we may beglad the accessories are well studied, as that does notgenerally occur in the work of the natural history artists. 82 No. 952, another Magpie picture, is very likeNo. 781, the birds looking as if they had been drawnfrom stuffed specimens. There are two paintings of Cockatoos in thisroom (Nos. 992 and 998) both by the same artist, andboth hung in the best positions. For most of thebird pictures of the Academy one can say something—generally that the Action is well studied, orthat, though dead, the birds are well painted—but Ihave looked carefully at these two paintings andcannot see anything in them which makes themthem worthy of their p06t flDortem IRcporte. {yide Rules). Canary. (Mr. Lloyd). Pneunioiiia. Canary. (Mr. Halliday). This bird was destroyed withoutexamination. Vide Rules is at the head of each monthsreport. , cock. (Miss Brooksbank). Septic enteritis andpneumonia were present. AIvARIO, hen. (Mr. Filhner). This bird, imported about fiveweeks previously and kept in a cage, had congestion of theliver of some standing and a recent pneumonia. Thegreen food was quite correct. My own pair of CapeCanaries (part of the same consignment) were turned intothe open air as soon as Mr. Filhner kindly gave them tome. They have remained quite well. Canary. (Mrs. Mortimer). Acute pneumonia was theimmediate cause of death. In addition to this the oviductwas much inflamed, and the ovary was therefore in aquiescent condition. The feeding was correct. 83 PiED WagTAIIv. (Mr. Filliner). This bird was rather decom-posed by the time I had leisure to examine it, but I wasable to make out that it had pneumon
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