Herodiones │ 1│ │ 1│ 2│ 4│ │ 4.1 Odontoglossæ│ │ │ │ │ │ │ Palamedes │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Anseres │ 16│ 17│ 11│ 6│ 50│ 1│ 15.7 Struthiones │ 2│ 3│ 5│ 1│ 11│ │ _34._ Crypturi │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ────────────┼────────┼───────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────── Total │ 98│ 118│ 112│ 44│ 367│ 8│ ════════════╧════════╧═══════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧════════╧══════════ In this and subsequent tables, figures in italics are for small groups of animals coming to autopsy, usually less than one hundred, and from which percentages may be misleading. The number of autopsies upon such groups may be found by consulting the list given on page 47. ENDOCARDITIS, MYOCARDITIS. Romberg said in his classical work on the heart that there is always some form of myocardial disease with endocarditis. The 44 cases of valvular disease detected at this Garden are 15 of chronic nature, 29 of acute or subacute character. In the former, the chronic, 9 showed some grade of muscular involvement, while 21 of the 29 acute cases of valvular inflammation were accompanied by myocardial damage; the percentages are 60 for chronic and 72 for acute, a relation that would be expected if one credit the theory that many valvular inflammations start at the root of the valves, but, at all events, they indicate that after the acute stages have passed the myocardial damage may be repaired. [Illustration: FIG. 1.—VEGETATIVE AND ULCERATIVE ENDOCARDITIS OF AORTIC VALVE. OSTRICH (STRUTHIO AUSTRALIS). ORGANISMS ISOLATED CORRESPONDED CLOSELY TO BAC. AFANASIEFFICHESTER. ]