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THE RABBIT 



Strabo, on rabbit in Balearic 



Isles, 2 

 Stronglyus co/ni/ititatits, 47 

 Sub-letting by tenant, 182, 195- 



196 

 Sulphur not recommended, 148 

 Summonses, 160 

 Sunday, shooting illegal on, 



208 

 Sweat in ferrets, 84, 91 

 Swimming, 25-26 



T.EXIA SERRATA, 49, 50 



Tail, use of white, 7 

 Tainted ground, 46, 63, 64 

 Tape-worms, 48, 49, 50 

 Teeth, malformation of, 6 

 Tenterden, Lord, on free-warren, 



54. 

 Terriers, 102, 137 



Tipes, or tip-traps, 75, 76 

 Transport of ferrets, 88 

 Trap for stoat, 78 

 Trap-fence, 68, 77 

 Trapping, 126-131 

 Trespass, by day, 159 



,, by night, 166 \ 



,, inpursuit ofgame, 163 j 

 Tuberculosis, pulmonary, 46, 47 

 Tuberculous liver, 46 

 Tumours, 48, 49 

 Turning down tame rabbits, ob- 

 jection to, 14, 15 

 Typhoid fever, 46 



Varieties, 16 

 Varro on the rabbit, 4 

 Vaynol, North Wales, 16 

 Vermin trapping, 79 



Vermin, rabbits not, 200 

 Void agreements, 1 94- 1 95 

 Voles killed by weasels, 80 



Warren, 51-81 



,, free, 52 



,, formation of, 59 



,, soil for, 60 



,, artificial burrows, 61 



,, draining, 62 



,, fencing, 66 



,, deterioration of, 74 

 Warrender, G. H., on rabbit 



swimming, 26 

 Warrener, duties of a, 75 

 Warry, on the Game Laws, 171 

 Weasel, 3, 39, JT, 79 

 ,, a tame one, 90 

 ,, hunting rabbit, 19 

 Weight of wild rabbit, 13, 14, 



36 

 ,, of polecat and ferret, 84 

 Wheatear, 121 

 White wild rabbits, 16 

 Wild rabbits in captivity, 12 

 Winter feeding, 35 

 Wire fencing, 34, 35 

 Wiring, 131-133, 153 

 Woodcuttings for bark, 37 

 Woolrych, Game Laws, 52, 57 

 Worms, parasitic, 47 

 Wounded rabbit biting, 22 



Yew, poisonous properties of, 32 

 ,, not recommended for co- 

 verts, 32, 33 

 Young, condition of at birth, 8 

 ,, distinguished from old, 

 II, 12 



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