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This paper describes a case of congenital Obstruction of the oviduct, of unusual character.

The bird was a year and a half Old R'hode Island Red hen which had been killed for meat. She was well grown and in good flesh. When the body cavity was opened it was'found full of membrane covered eggs. They represented every possi ble stage of absorption from a normal membrane Shelled egg to collapsed empty egg membranes. Some of the eggs and empty membranes were. Free in the body cavity; Others were walled Off in pockets either singly or in aggregates. There was one large mass (twice the Size of a hen's egg) of empty tightly packed egg membranes. At the time of examination 15 absorb ing eggs and a 'very large number Of empty membranes were found. Eleven of the 15 eggs had' evidently been normal eggs although many of them contained a homogeneous mixture of yolk and albumen at the time examined. Four were double eggs. That is, one egg enclosed within another. One'of the four was made up of a series Of' four concentric eggs. The inner-egg being a small witc'h or cock egg, The ovary of this bird was in the same condition as the ovary of any laying bird. It had a normal series Of enlarging yolks and resorbing follicles. The oviduct as far as the pos terior end of the isthmus or egg membrane secreting portion was also in the normal laying condition. -at the posterior end of the isthmus the duct ended blindly, although the ligament which suspends the duct from the body wall continued normally to the end of the body cavity. There was no shell gland or vagina. The only opening to the duct was the funnel mouth.

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