472 



OUTDOOR LIFE IN ENGLAND 



Otters, fish-poachers, 76 



Inland and sea, 79 



Powers and pluck of, 78 



Size of, 78 



skin, Toughness of, 77 



Tame, 75 



Training of, 75 



Trapping of, 74 

 Ouzel, ring, The, 104 



water, The, 295 

 Owl, Ear of, 202 



long-eared, The, 205 



short-eared, The, 206 



scops, The, 201 



tawny, The, 204 



white or barn, The, 203 

 Owls, 200 



eggs, protection of in Oxford- 

 shire, 129 



hawks and, Similarity between, 

 207 



Sight of, 201 

 Oyster-catcher, The, 283 



P. 



Partridge, The, 245 



French, The, 246 



shooting, 376 

 Peewit, The, 114 



Peewits, solicitude for their nests, 115 

 Pennyroyal, 450 

 Peppermint, The, 450 

 Petrel, fork-tailed, The, 362 



fulmar, The, 359 



storm, The, 361 

 Petrels, The, 359 

 Phalaropes, The, 292 

 Pheasant, The, 243 



shooting, 386 



Pimpernel, scarlet, The, 450 

 Pine grosbeak, The, 97 

 Pintail, The, 325 

 Pipit, meadow, The, 145 



tree, The, 145 



Varieties of, 145 

 Pipits, Larks and, 144 

 Plantain, great, The, 451 



hoary, The, 451 



ribwort, The, 451 



water, The, 452 

 Plover, golden, The, 281 



gray, The, 287 



Kentish, The, 283-286 



ringed, The, 282 

 Plover's eggs, 114 

 Plovers, British, 279 



nests, 116 

 Pochard, The, 327 

 Polecat, The, 43 



Protection of garden-produce from 

 birds, 112 



Ptarmigan, The, 242 

 Puffin, The, 352 



Q. 

 Quail, The, 247 



Rabbit-farming, 35 

 poaching, 38 

 shooting, 393-396 



Rabbits, acute senses of hearing and 

 smelling, 32 



Rabbits at play, 37 t 



Black, 35 



Breeding season of, 32 

 Condition of, when born 36 

 Counties most suitable for, 34 

 disease caused by overcrowding, 



34 



Distribution of, to the poor, 39 



Effect of, on pastureland, 36 



English, crossing of with foreign, 

 40 



Hedge, stated not to burrow, 36 



Liver disease of, 33 



once domesticated said not to 

 burrow, 35 



Profligacy of, 32 



Restocking a manor with, 34 



Soil suitable for, 33 



Tame, 35 



Wild white, 35 



Wood, and ferreting, 37 

 Ragged robin, The, 411, 417 

 Rampick-tree, A, 64 

 Rat-bite, Poisonous effects of, 54 



black, The, 55 



Disappearance of, 57 



brown, The, 56 



The, Goldsmith on, 56 

 and water-vole, Fight be- 

 tween, 61 

 Rats, 54 



Black and brown, 57 



method of keeping out of a 

 house, 49 



Snakes and, 59 

 Raven, The, 189 

 Razorbill, The, 350 

 Redpoles, Siskins and, 100 

 Redshank, The, 300 



dusky, The, 304 

 Restharrow, The, 452 

 Retaliation, law of, The, 130 

 Retrievers, 384 

 Ring-ouzel, The, 104 

 Rodents, 62 

 Rook, The, 190 



court-martial, A, 192 



shooting, 372 

 Rooks, crows, and jackdaws, 189 



