INDEX 



907 



integration with other land use 588, 598. 615. 623, 650 



intensive vs. inridental 587 



maintenance uf a grouse crap 596. 667 



management plans 632 



of coverls for hunting 594. 629 



organizing the forces of production 629 



regulation of hunting 602. 678 



regulation of the grouse harvest 631. 673 



relation to soil conservation 587, 597 



role of the State (see State) 



significance and potentialities 58], 586 



sludieB of 30. 582 



summary of pertinent research 583 

 mandrake 195 



manganese, a food component 239, 111 

 Manitau Island (Wis. J 19 

 Manitoha 23. 453, 504. 558 

 Manlius School (N.YJ 30 

 ManruBs, F. N. 22. 28, 30 

 man's aids, effect on grouse abundance 233. 370, 392 



automobiles and highways IS, 390, 392, 394 



axe and plow 387, 393 



fire 393 



grouse dugs 395 



guns, traps and snares 15. 394 



methods of taking grouse 8, 9 

 maple 115. 198. 204, 215. 218, 219, 222. 224. 225, 233 

 maple, moose (see maple, striped) 

 maple, mountain 204. 207, 215, 220, 225. 227. 655 

 maple, red 204. 215. 227, 640. 655. 848, 883 

 maple, striped 204. 215. 225. 227. 655. 848 

 maple, sugar 190, 204. 228, 2.32, frlO, 655. 818. 8^3 

 maple family, as a source of grouse food 204 

 maple-tree worm 101, 212 

 maps, used by Investigation 695 

 Marble. 0. B. 78 

 Maritime Provinces 562 

 market hunting 14. 388. 394 



njcthods 8. 371. 375. 389 



numbers taken 8. 371. 375, 558 



outlawed 17. 388, 389 

 market price 8, 101. 371. 557 

 marking grouse (sec methods and lechniqucd) 

 Murmota nionax 333 

 Marshall W. 22. 24 

 marten 333.578 

 Maries amt-ricana 333, 578 

 Maries pennanli 333 

 Marthas Vineyard (Mass.) 18. 50. 507 

 Martin, A. M. 3 

 Marvin. C. F. 579 



Maryland 2. 13. 18. 23, 24, 36, 46. 72. 272. 274. 420 

 Maryland Conservation Department 23. 24 

 Massachusetts 10. 12. 17. 22, 30, 102. 187. 261. 375. 409. 423 421 



428. 562, 563, 565. 566, 572 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College 30 



Massachusetts Department of Conservation xxxvi. 22. 24. 30 

 Massachusetts Fish and Game Division 18. 30 

 Massachusetts Fish and (;ame Proleclivc Association xxxvi, 30 

 mast 202 



Matanu'k conference 575 

 Muiheson, R. xxxvi 

 Mathews. F. S. 235 

 mating habits 67, 248. 265. 282 

 May, J. B,343 

 may-apple (sec mandrake) 

 mayflowcr. (Canada 845 

 Maynard. C. J. 10, 18, 102. 260. 276 

 McAtee, W. L. xxxvi, 101, 333, 337, 343, .314, 513 

 McCarthy. D. F. 23 

 McCormack. J. T. xxxv 

 McDonald, D. 572 

 McLean. C. P. 22. 24 

 McNamara, L. C. 23 

 McVicar. A. J. 22 

 mealworm 189 

 Mearns, E. A. 360 

 measurements 98 

 mechanical injury 



as a cause of mortality 402. 511, 528. 531. 532 



relation to disease 404 

 Mecoplera 775 

 Mi'gninia 409 

 Melamphy. G. E. 22 

 melanism 58 



Mflanoplus jemur-ruUrum 213 

 Mennpun 409. 435 

 Mfphitis mephitis 323, 333- 

 Merrill, A. 22. 24, 26. 30. 447 

 Mershon, W. B. 10. 32, 520 

 mesoptiles 59, 746 

 metabolism 749 

 methods and techniques used by Investigation 693 



analysing chemical composition of grouse foods 237 



biometrical analysis of data (see also biumetrical analysis) 718 



determining buffer abundance 709 



determining disease relationships 711 



determining effect of hunting 713 



determining food relationships 184, 706 



determining predator abundance and activity 708 



determining predator food habits 709 



determining predators responsible for grouse kills and nest 

 destruction 709 



determining sex and age 514, 718 



determining shelter relationships 701 



determining weather relationships 707 



estimating grouse populations (census) 714 



making and recording field observations 699. 700 



mapping study areas 695 



organization 693 



principle of random distribution 701 



recording observations 699, 702. 703. 704. "05 



securing observations 699 



selection of personnel 699 



selection of study areas 694 



trapping and marking grouse 507, 716 

 methiids of altering existing cover 639 



cutting 234, 6-tO 



fire 228, 232, 612, 650, 664 



girdling 640 



grazing 233, 641 



indirect 59b 



poisoning 640 

 methods of artificial propagation (nee aUo artificial propagalitm) 



all-purpose pens 449. 453. 459, 467. 469. 486 



brooder operation 186 



brooders and brooder houurs 449. 183 



brooding of chicks 419. 182 



care of breeding slock 159 



care of chicks at hatching time 181 



care of chicks following hatching 482 



care rtf eggs during incubation 47.) 



care of young grouse during rearing perioil 491 



control of feather picking and cannibalism 188. 190. 497. 501 



diseaHc control 435. 437. 438. 139, 4U. 416. U7. 157. 472. 190. 491 



egg collection 451. 171 



feeding adult grouse 462. 468. 189 



feeding chickii and young grouse 187, 4.'>6. 188. 193 



handling wild-trapped breeders 419, 452 



incubation of grou!>e eegs 449, 473 



incubator-brooder method 157 



incubators and their operation 475 



natural cover meihod 150. 153 



obtaining fertile eggs 170 



overwintering breeders 159 



pens and penning 119. 153. 4,55, 4.59. 461, 492 



protection from preilators 4.55, 190 



provision of ^heller 4.56 



rearing field 191 



selection of breeders U9. 163. 196 



"eleclivr breeding M»3 



sex ratios 170. 878 



transportation of eggs 451 



use of eggs from wild nesls 151 



use of proiise or hens for incubation 1-17. 171 



unc of wild-trapped breeders 149 



water ref|uiremen1s 162, 482. 489. 491. 501 



weight BH an index nf health 463. 500 

 methods of management 



altering exi-iling cover (see methods of altering existing cover) 



artificial food and shelter 632 



clear-cut units (see slashings) 



control of buffers 670 



control of deer 666 



control of disease 631. 667, 668. 671 



etmlrol of livestock .381. 641. 66.=; 



control of man (see also himting) 629. 631, 678 



control of predators .390. 587. 6.30. 667. 668 



cover arrangement 609 



cover design 607 



cover survey and analysis 62 1 



cover type mapping 62h 



determining grouse populations (census) 667, 67,";. 714 

 forest stand and game cover improvement 623. 650. 777 



function of each cover Ivpe 607 



harvest of population surpluses (see population surplus) 



measuring the harvesiable crop 667. 674, 676 

 planning cover improvenienls 621 

 planting (see planting) 



producing and maintaining productive cover (see habitat 

 management) 



protecting existing habitat 661 



restocking (see restocking 1 



role of fire 232. 393. 642. 650. 664 



role of refuges 391. 629, 667. 679 ' 



setting up managemcnl plans 632 

 treatment of open land 6l6 



treatment of overgrown land 618 

 treatuieni of slashings 621 



