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useful, and take care to have a supply sufficient to last well on 

 into the spring. But, as I have already said, care must be taken 

 that the roots do not get frozen. 



The incubation periods of some of the birds referred to in 

 this paper, as noted by me, may interest some : — Capercaillie, 26 

 days; Blackgame, 25 — 26 days ; Redgrouse, 20 — 21 days; Willow 

 Grouse, 20 — 21 days; Moual, 28 — 29 days; Tragopan, 29 days. 



