INDEX 



Aflforestation, 143-5 

 Amherst pheasant^ the, 15 

 Aviaries for penning' pheas- 

 ants, 226-8 

 Aviary pheasants, of no value 

 for sport, 11-16 



Baily's Magazine, quoted, 211 

 Bargany, covert -shooting at, 



273 

 Barton, Mr. F., Pheasants in 



Covert and Aviary, cited 51 



(footnote), 260 

 "Battue," early records of 



the, 87-95 

 Bedford, Duchess of, notes on 



pheasants at Woburn Abbey, 



12-14 

 Beebe, Mr. C. W., Mono- 

 graph of Phasianidae, 1 



(footnote) 

 Bewick, notes on Chinese 



pheasant by, 17 

 Blackgame, crosses with 



pheasant, 73 

 Bohemian pheasant, the, 71 



Capercailzie, crosses with 



pheasant, 73 

 Carnegie, Mr. W., Practical 



6r«me Preserving, cited 249 



(footnote) 



Chinese pheasant, the, 17-18 

 Clarke, Mr. W. Eagle, on 

 pheasant and capercailzie 

 hybrids, 73 

 Common pheasant, the, 16-17 

 Covert Shooting — at Holk- 

 ham, 312-17 ; at Bargany, 

 274-84 ; cardinal rule gov- 

 erning successful conduct 

 of, 268 ; devices for high 

 birds at, 280-82 ; details of 

 well managed, 274-84 ; 

 early records of, 86-96 ; 

 effects of wind on, 286 ; a 

 fine -weather sport, 287; 

 importance of safe guns at, 

 288 ; marksmanship at, 211- 

 214 ; merits of, 84-5 ; right 

 aspects of, 270 



Diseases of pheasants, table 

 of, 242-9 ; insufficient 

 knowledge of, 248 



" Dry-food " system, the, 229- 

 234 



Duck, at covert shoots, 300- 

 302 ; at Netherby ; shooting 

 of hand-reared, 307-9 



Earle, Mrs., Pot Pourrifrom a 



Surrey Garden, quoted 177 



Eggs, Pheasant — care of by 



329 



