71.   Around the South, mosquitos are being trapped and hundreds of dead birds collected as health officials test for the virus.

72.   Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist removed the second dead bird from the pitch and the game was wrapped up in the next over.

73.   By tracking migrating hawks, scientists from the U-S and Argentina now believe they have solved the puzzle of the dead birds.

74.   Dead birds infected with the virus were found in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

75.   Dead birds found in Bethany, Tolland and Trumbull tested positive for the virus.

76.   Even dead birds are highly valued.

77.   Fearing the infection might spread with the fall bird migration, experts also are testing dead birds from Maryland to Florida.

78.   Following a pattern predicted by environmental officials, more dead birds have tested positive for the West Nile virus in several Connecticut towns.

79.   Health officials said last week that a virus believed to be West Nile had been found in dead birds in the metropolitan region.

80.   Hundreds of dead birds have been found in recent weeks from Connecticut south to New Jersey and Long Island.