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Fulica americana
155
c13 Univ. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif.-
Have it a good dose of sulfamamide
served it up and released it.
c14 same locality - All the seced birds seem
to be in satisfactory condition this
morning. III is still somewhat puffy
and sluggish but seemingly improved.
WIB seems to be okay, and O shows
no indication of a limp. BEW is not
as active as some of the unseced birds,
but I think that all of them are in
condition that will allow survival.
c15 same locality - All the birds seem to
be in good shape. We BEW, WIB + O
will go on Lake Temescal tomorrow
or Saturday but IIII will be kept
until it is in better shape. It is
still somewhat inflated. A bird
cought last night at lake Merritt
A, very thin; tip of its upper
mandible broken so I doubt if it
was able to eat very well. Killed it.
As it died from ether, its last
sign of life was the spreading of
the under tail coverts as in times
of alarm. Wing (11) and right leg
dried. Tectro saved in Bouaro - a smear
made from blood of the kidney region -
greatly enlarged gall bladder, spleen
a deep red, about same color as breast
muscle, slightly mottled, bursa
probed 35 mm. Cloaca + syrinx saved
in alcohol. Carcass turned over to
Dr. Kirby for further investigation of