506 



INDEX 



Fighting, mortality from, 181 

 Filaria smithi, 218 

 Fires, accidental, 400 

 Flagellata, 325 

 Fleas on Grouse, 302 IF 

 Hies on Grouse, 358 tf 

 Flight, powers of, 26 

 Flooding, 15, 16 ; ii. 129 



Food, heather nearly all-important, 70, 81, 398 ; ii. 

 129 



but not indispensable, 69, 70 



various, 70, 77, 84-87 



heather seed, 74, 70, 153 ; ii. 129 



berries, 73, 74, 455 



insects, 77, 78, 88, 89, 90, 100, 369 



corn, 25, 81,82, 113, 382 



percentages in summer, table, 70 



winter, nature of, 25, 75 



greater quantity required in winter, 79, 132, 

 399 



percentages in winter, table, 76 



proportion of animal and vegetable, 90-91 



chemical constituents, 100 



monthly dietary, 83 ff 

 Food areas, overcrowding on, 81, 136, 376, 379, 



400 

 Food plants, list and description of, 83-87 

 Food supply 



heather burning and, 898, 400 



conditions affecting stock, 455 



relation of to migration, 81 

 Foreign species, introduction of, 53 

 Foster mothers, unsuccessful, 485-486 

 Fox, methods of destruction, 445 

 Fresh blood, introduction of, 28, 53, 475, 477-478 



unnecessary where birds migratory, 477 



birds apt to wander, 477 



risks of introducing, 478 



objections to introducing, 479 

 Frost, effect of on eggs, 10, 11, 12, 173; ii. 129, 

 132 ff. 



on pheasants' eggs, 11 ; ii. 1.34 



Analysis of observations on, ii. 132 ff 



interrupting breeding, ii. 133 



result of observations, ii. 1.3G 



GAM ASUS coLEOPTKATOliUM (beetle-mite) on Grouse, 



365 

 Gamedealers' licences, 452, 499 

 Gamekeepers, 430 ff 



importance of, 430 



should be owner's servants, 430, 432 



relations with agricultural tenants, 432 



tenns of service, 433 



should not be paid in " kind," 4.33 



married and unmarried, 433 



pension fund, 433 



number required, 434 



Head, 434-4.35 



Under, 434-435 



area under one man's control, 434-4.35 



selection of, 435 



essential qualifications, 435 



personal qualifications, 4.36 



Gamekeepers — continued 



the " ideal " and the inefficient, 436-437 

 training of young, 436 

 impoi-tance of keenness in, 436 

 duties, 438 ff 



in "oft" season, 4.38 

 in nesting season, 438 ff 



" Stetchworth " system, 4.38-4.39 

 improving nesting ground, 440 

 drains and springs, 440 

 grit supply, 440 

 vermin killing, 441 

 butt building, 441 

 "bushing" fences, -141 

 bracken, destruction of, 441 

 estimating stock, 441 

 observing nests and broods, 459 

 in shooting season, -t42 ff 

 Grouse dri\ing, 436-437 

 cocks, killing down, 442, 45.3 

 Autumn heather-burning, 442 

 in Winter, 442 



vermin tracking in snow, 4-13 

 total of wages paid to, 495 

 Game-laws Commission, 394 

 Game licences, economic value of, 499 

 "Gapes" in Grouse, 213 

 Geological formations 

 in Scotland, ii. 1.39 

 no relation to " Disease," ii. 1.39 f 

 Gizzard, 102, 103, 100, 111 



in Grouse chicks, schedule of all specimens 

 examined, ii. 27-85 

 fJoniodes tetruoni.i (bird louse) on Grouse, .348"ff 

 habits, 349 

 morphology, 349-350 

 eggs, 350 



and skin disease, 183-184 

 Grazing rents and sheep rents, 396 

 Gregarines in Grouse, 330 



spores in alimentary canal, 330 

 Grit, 94 ff 



in Grouse chicks, 18 



eagerly sought for, 20 



size of, 95 



weight of, 95 



quantity of, 95 



geological constituents of, 95 



quartz, always preferred, 96, 97, 99, 102 



garnets and glass beads rejected, ii. 94 f 



in partridge and phea.sant, 96 



artificial introduction of, 97, 440 



during snowstorms, 177 ; ii. 94 

 effect of grit-starvation, 9" ; ii. 92 ff 

 control over lo.ss of, 97, 98, 114 ; ii. 92 ff 

 berries as substitute for, 98, 103 

 in blackgame, 99 

 functions of, 100 

 shot pellets as, 103, 169 

 Grouse, history of name, 1 

 distribution, 1, .3 

 confined to Britain, .5.3 

 acclimatisation, 1, 2 

 economic importance, 2, 492 ff 



