A Duck Alarm
Has anyone, sportstnan or other, found a dead duck ? The question is being urgently asked by those kind experts who are working for the international control of wild fowl. It appears that in North America (where perhaps the slaughter of geese and duck has been most indis- criminate) a strange malady has broken out, and the birds are such far- flung migrants that no country may feel itself safe from the infection. So if anyone finds a dead duck will he please send it to the Pathologist at the Regent's Park Zoo. We were once invaded by great flocks of Northern pigeon afflicted with a grievous form of diphtheria ; but with that exception how rarely do any birds other than game birds suffer from any malady whatever. They live ideally healthy lives, save when finches gorge themselves excessively on cider pulp or tits eat too much coconut, as someone bas suggested.
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