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THE RABBIT 



Oats, crushed, as winter food 



for rabbits, 37 

 ' Occupiers ' under Ground 

 Game Act, 174- 

 175, 182, 193 

 ,, of more than one 



farm, 187 

 , , letting sporting rights, 

 196-197 

 Odd shots, 117 

 Old hay best winter food, 35 

 Old rabbits distinguished from 



young, II, 12 

 Onions with rabbit, 237 

 Ostend rabbits, 232 

 Overstocking, 46, 65 

 Owls and young rabbits, 45 

 ' Owners ' under Ground Game 



Act, 173, 183 

 Owners in occupation, 183, 202- 

 203, 207 



Palmer, Dr. T. S., on rabbits 



of United States, 50 

 Paraffin, 147 

 Parasitic worms, 47 

 Paston Letters, 51 

 Pasture, effect of rabbits on, 72 

 Payne-Gallwey, Sir K., on 



rabbit nets, 139 

 Pheasants versus fowls, 223 

 Pickering, W. C., three rabbits 



with one bullet, 125 

 Pie, rabbit, 244 



Pines attacked by rabbits, 32, 33 

 Pistol, licence required for, 201 

 Pitfalls, 76, 134 

 Pliny's notice of rabbit, I, 3 

 Poachers' ferrets, 152 

 Poaching, 1 50- 1 72 

 Poaching Prevention Act, 158, 



169-171 

 Poison illegal, 188, 202 

 Polecat, 77, ^Tj, 86 



Potage, 222 



Prices at market, ^i, TJ 

 Professional rabbit-killer, 185- 

 187 

 ,, appointment of, 187 



,, form of appoint- 



ment, 188 

 , , pre duction of autho- 



rs cy, 189 

 Profit and loss in a warren, 65, 



71, 73 . 

 Pf'o/iiptonumparvulorittu, 4, 51 



Pulmonary tuberculosis, 47 

 Purchaser of standing crop, not 

 an occupier, 183 



Questions not judicially de- 

 termined, 184, 189, 192 



Rabbits not vermin, 200 

 Rabette, original signification 



of, 4 

 Rabettes, rost, 236 

 Rache, a hound hunting by 



scent, 4 

 Rats, 39, 40, 77, 81, 135 

 Raven, attacking rabbit, 46 

 Reservation of game and rab- 

 bits, 164 

 Resident on land defined, 185 

 Responsibilities of a shooting- 

 host, 104 

 Retrievers, 105- 106 

 Reynard the fox, 83 

 Richard 11. , legislation as to 



ferrets, 83 

 Richelieu, boudins de, 245, 246 

 Rifles for rabbit-shooting, 121- 



123 

 Right to kill rabbits, 164 

 Riley, John, rabbit hawking, 



with goshawk, 220 

 Ringed plover. 121 

 Riote, meaning of the word, 4 



