INDEX 



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Coney-close, 51 

 Coney-garth, 51 

 Coneys, so styled in game laws. 



Cookery ol the rabbit, 222 



Coping ferrets, 87 



Cordeaux, John, on youngabove- 



ground, 9 

 Corsican pine, 33 

 Couch's ' Illustrations of In- 

 stinct,' 21 

 Covert for warren, 66 

 Covert-shooting, 107-109 

 Crab dislodging rabbit, 37 

 Craigincat, Perthshire, 22 

 Crows and ravens, 45, 46 

 Curry of rabbit, 243 

 Cutlets of rabbit, 247 



Damage by ground game, 176 



Day defined, 159 



Defence of young, 20, 21, 23, 39 



De Grey, Lord, rabbit shouting, 

 114 



Demesne lands, 55 



Dentition, 5 



Detention in custody, 165 



Deterioration of warrens, 74 



Difference between rabbit and 

 hare, 5 



Diseases of rabbits, 46, 63 



Distemper in ferrets, 91 



Dog chasing game, 161 

 ,, hunting in warren, 161 

 ,, liability for shooting, 161 

 ,, spreading disease, 48 



Domesticated wild rabbits, 12 



Downland, under Ground Game 

 Act, 1 92- 1 93 



Eagles preying on rabbits, 44 

 Egg-stealing, 157 

 Eley, Charles, rabbit-shooting, 

 114 



Elwes, II. J., on warrens, 73 

 Enteric fever, 46 



Faggot-heafs for shelter, 63 



Feathered foes, 44 



l*"ecundity of wild rabbit, 8, 



\ eeding, mode of, 6 

 Fencing, 34, 35, 66-68 

 Ferret, introduced by Romans, 



/'. 3 

 ,, origin of name, 82 



management of, 84 

 transport of, 88 

 weight, 84 ; breed- 

 ing of, 86 ; muzzling, 

 87 ; homing instinct, 

 89; feeding, 85, 91 ; 

 handling, 92 ; work- 

 ing, 92 

 Ferreting, 82-94 



,, by owner and oc- 



cupier, 209 

 5, by poachers, 152 



,, hints on, 92, 93 

 Field mice, 79 

 Filar ia pttlmoiialis, 47 

 Plorence, chef to the Duke of 



Buccleuch, 241 

 Fold-nets, 75 

 Food, choice of, 28 

 ,, in winter, 35 

 Foot-rot in ferrets, 84, 92 

 Fox, 39, 67, 77, 80, III 

 Franchises and Charters override 



Ground Game Act, 202 

 Frederick II. of Germany em- 

 ploying ferrets in I24'5, 83 

 Free-warren, right of, explained, 



52-58, 161, 167 

 French novelists on the rabbit, 



231 

 Freres Provencaux, 222 

 Fuses for bolting rabbits, 149 



