. Bird notes . to amember, but to a local friend of mine. Its health was goodfor two years and seemed to be so up till within two daysof its death. It died of a disease which is more oftenfound in Fowls than in cage-birds, and which is character-ized by the presence of the aspergillus fumigatus (one ofthe mould-fungi) in the air passages, air sacs, and sometimes,as in this case, the lungs, (The air sacs are bag-likecavities communicating with the lung, and in mammalsare represented as an attenuated survival by the pleurae, asthe result of evolution by atrophy.) In this particularcase the sympt
. Bird notes . to amember, but to a local friend of mine. Its health was goodfor two years and seemed to be so up till within two daysof its death. It died of a disease which is more oftenfound in Fowls than in cage-birds, and which is character-ized by the presence of the aspergillus fumigatus (one ofthe mould-fungi) in the air passages, air sacs, and sometimes,as in this case, the lungs, (The air sacs are bag-likecavities communicating with the lung, and in mammalsare represented as an attenuated survival by the pleurae, asthe result of evolution by atrophy.) In this particularcase the symptoms before death were those of instances have occurred of this disease (pneumonomycosis) being communicated to man. Budgerigar. (Mr. Harman). Apoplexy was the cause ofdeath—not associated with septic disease. Canary. (Mrs. McAdam). There were no symptoms of in-ternal disease in this bird, but there was a large blood clotat the base of the brain, causing death by apoplexy. W. Geo. Creswei,!,.. ,—You ask for something with which to combat plan I use is to place round the aviar}, in the ground,sheet iron or fine wire netting some 15 or 18 inches deep, withthe lower part bent outward nearly at right angles for aboutsix inches. In blocking the runs with concrete a little broken glassshould be added to the cement. John Acutt. BIRD NOTES.
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