252 



THE RABBIT 



Game-laws, i 58-1 71 



Game-licences Act, i860, 199 



Gas-lime, 47, 64, 73 



Genghis Khan, employing fer- 

 rets in 1 22 1, 82 



Gestation, in rabbit, 8 

 ,, in ferret, 8 



Gin, origin of name, 127 

 , , various patterns of, 1 28- 1 29 

 ,, use of, controlled by statute, 

 130 



Gonzales Zarco, the rabbits of, 1 5 



Goshawk a good rabbit-catcher, 



45 

 ,, trained to take rabl)its, 



213-221 

 ,, how caught, 215 



,, how trained, 215-216 

 ,, good bags, 219, 220 

 Grazing under Ground Game 

 Act, 1 90-1 9 1 

 ,, outside warren, 67-68 

 Grey, Lord de, rabbit-shooting, 



114 

 Ground game defined, 206 

 Ground Game Act, 172-209 



,, its object ex- 



plained, 181 

 ,, its sections 



examined, 

 181-209 

 Gun, definition of, 201 

 Gun-Licence Act, 1870, 171, 

 200-202 



Haihts of hares and rabbits, 7 

 ,, in covert, 107, 108 

 ,, of pheasants contrasted, 

 107 

 llanda. Isle of, rabbits on, 16 

 Ilarcourt, Sir W., views on 

 Ground Game Act, 1 95- 196, 

 204-205 

 Hare and Rabbit compared, 5 



Hares Act, 1848, 207 



,, Preservation Act, 1892, 



208 

 ,, close time for in Ireland, 



208 

 ,, killed by owners and oc- 

 cupiers without licence, 

 199 

 Hartshorn, Salopia antiqtia, 52 

 Hawker, Col., 27 

 Hawking rabbits with goshawk, 

 213-221 

 ,, does not drive away 

 game, 218 

 Hedgehog, trap for, 135 

 Hedges, ownership of, 161-162 

 ,, crossing to ferret rab- 

 bits, 163 

 Higglers and general dealers, 



,, notable conviction ot. 



Highroad, shooting on, 162 

 Hits and misses, 109 

 ' Hob' and ' jill,' 92 

 Holding over by tenant, 182 

 Holland's '250 rifle for rabbits, 



123 

 Homing instinct in ferrets, 89 

 Howard, Lord W. , ferreting in 



Cumberland in 1621, 83 

 Humane traps, 131, 133, 134 

 Hutches for ferrets, 91 

 Hydatids, 48, 49 



Information, laying an, 159 

 Inhumanity of traps, 131 

 Inishtrahull, rabbits on Isle of, i 

 Interbreeding, 17 

 Introduction of rabbit by 



Romans, i, 82 

 Ireland, close time for hares in, 



208 

 Islands, rabljits on, 14, 15 



