Erysipelas in a free-ranging Hawaiian crow (Corvus hawaiiensis)

We describe a case of erysipelas in a free-ranging endangered Hawaiian crow . The partially scavenged carcass exhibited gross emaciation and petechial hemorrhages in both lungs. Microscopy revealed multiple necrotic foci assoc iated with gram-positive rods in the liver and adrenal, diffuse acute proxi mal tubular necrosis of kidney diffuse necrosis and inflammation of provent ricular mucosa associated with gram-positive rods, and multiple intravascul ar aggregates of gram-positive rods associated with thrombi. Culture of the kidney revealed the bacterium to be Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, The impl ications of this finding to free-ranging crows remain unclear.