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Index 



Posting, 250, 252. 



Prairie chickens, budding, 147, 176; census, 

 170, 291; "comeback" of 1912, 171, 172; 

 cycles, 137, 142, 144, 173, 187; dates of 

 decline, 167; death from wires, 185; 

 density, 172; disease, 181; distribution, 

 161, 166; early fall flights, 175; flights 

 and cycles, 175; flight limit, 174; foods, 

 181; increase with settlement, 165; index 

 areas, 187; management, 185; migration, 

 165; mobility, 175; movements, 173; 

 northward shift, 161, 166; packs, 177; 

 parasites, 181; refuges, 187; relation to 

 pheasants, 120; response to management, 

 161; rise and fall of, 166; roosting hab- 

 its, 177; seasons on, 185; sex in relation 

 to migration, 173; sex ratio, 178; slash- 

 ings as range, 170; southern sharptails, 

 166; southward shift, 164; trapping of, 

 173; trend, 169; types of range, 168; 

 winter food, 179; winter migrations, 173; 

 yards, 177; winter losses, 76. 



Prairies, proportion to woodland, 17; type, 

 17; map of Iowa, 18; Illinois, 19; soils, 

 45; as chicken range, 169. 



Predators, 217; relation to ruffed grouse, 

 157. 



Protectionists, cooperation with, 269. 



Public lands available for management, 245. 



Public shooting grounds, 187, 198, 206, 241, 

 242, 257, 268. 



QUAIL, abundance of, 24, 26, 33, 41, map, 

 34; abundance ratios, 29; breeding season, 

 58; census, 29, 33; charges for hunting, 

 85; cock movement, 51; concentrations, 

 42; cost of stock, 85; coverts, 59, 63; 

 covies per man per day, 290; covies on 

 Smith farm, 27; crippling loss, 87; de- 

 cline on Smith farm, 26, 87 ; density 

 classes, 38, 46; disease, 42, 56, 78; dis- 

 tribution of, 25, 32; dogs, 83; drowning 

 of, 48; eggs, number and incubation, 57; 

 first quail at Chillicothe, 25; food, 57, 59; 

 four stages in, 24; fox-quail ratio, 224; 

 hatching date, 57, 58; hunting, 83; im- 

 prisonment of, 78; inbreeding, 54; in 

 open and closed areas, 39; irruptions, 43, 

 80; kill, 29, 87; Mexican, 30. 54, 85; 

 migration, 47; movements, 47, 51, 85; 

 nesting, dates, 57; losses, 80; nests per 

 acre, 42; non-breeding covies, 56; old- 

 time populations, 40; phenology, 56; 

 plants, 30, 45; population, by states, 36, 

 map, 35; preserves, 52, 58; purity of 

 stock, 31; quail-less area, 32, 44, 45, 105; 

 recovery^ from winter losses, 79; refuges, 

 85; regular range in Wisconsin, 45; re- 

 lation to insects, 59, 63, 74; relation to 

 pheasants, 55; saturation point, 41; sea- 

 sons, 83, 57; sex ratio, 51; shuffle, 49, 

 57; swarms of, 50; trading cocks, 55; 

 trapping from refuges, 85 ; weather losses, 

 74; weeds, 68; weights, 58; western, 31; 



whistling zone, 51; winter feeding, 72; 

 winter losses, 44, 75, 79, 80, 82; woods, 

 58, 69. 



RABBIT, Australian, 52 ; experiment station, 

 89 ; fluctuation in relation to birds, 98 ; 

 saturation point, 98 ; scattering quail at 

 night, 78. See also Snowshoe, Cottontail, 

 Jack, Swamp. 



Ragweed, 57, 68, 181. 



Rail fences, 24, 26. 



Rainfall records, 76, 80. 



Ratios, cripple: kill, 87, 208; fox: quail, 

 224; red: gray fox, 218, 222; release: 

 kill, 119; sex, 51, 118, 178, 228; species, 

 119, 217, 292; success in farmer eggs, 101. 



Reconstruction of quail coverts, 30. 



Red fox, see Foxes. 



Refuges, big game, 191, 198; chicken, 175, 

 187; classification of, 243; deer, 198; fed- 

 eral, 206; leased, 244; pheasant, 120; 

 policies, 241; quail, 85; reverted lands for, 

 257; ruffed grouse, 158; turkey, 191; 

 Upper Mississippi, 246; waterfowl, 201, 

 202, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 242. 



Research, 259, 262, 269. See also species 

 study outlines. 



Reversion of lands, 17, 246, 255, 257. 



Ridgeway, R., quoted, 161. 



Ringneck pheasant, budding, 120; census and 

 kill, 114; charges for, 133; cost of plant- 

 ings, 100, 103; cover, 121; distribution, 

 106; elapsed time, 129; kill record, 132; 

 location of, 106; management, 131; move- 

 ments, 120; nutrition of, 125; on south- 

 ern game farms, 101, 122, 127; pathology 

 of, 125; plants, history of, 101; cost of, 

 103; location of, 106; origin of, 123, 124; 

 release: kill ratio, 119; "ribbons", 126; 

 seasons, 130; sex ratio, Dakota tally, 118; 

 shining of, 118; success ratio in eggs, 101 ; 

 survival of males, 110; types of success 

 and failure, 107. 



Riverbreaks type, 17, 43, 49, 61, 105, 249. 



Roadsides, burning of, 245. 



Rose hips, 181. 



Ruffed grouse, budding, 147; census, 152, 

 153; cycle chart, 142, 144; distribution, 

 149, 150, 153; flushed per day, 151; 

 foods, 159; in Ozarks, 155, 156; manage- 

 ment, 1 60 ; market hunting of, 151; mor- 

 tality and recovery map, 145 ; mortality 

 on islands, 139, 155; parasitized, 138, 154, 

 184; per cent mortality, 137, 152; popu- 

 lation density, 152; relation to grazing, 

 156; seasons, 146, 158; skipped cycles in, 

 155; symptoms associated with mortality, 

 153; winter losses, 157. 



Rye, discontinuance of, 179. 



SANCTUARIES, 244. 



Sand area of Wisconsin, 46, 105, 169. 

 Sandburg, C, quoted, 194. 

 Saturation point. See species. 



