Index. 



95 



Portable aviaries for young birds, 1 2 

 Aviaries, how to make, II 

 Aviary, 9 

 Aviary, cost of, 12 

 Aviary, dimensions of, II 



Putting out the young birds and 

 hen, 28 



R. 



Rearing, 28 

 Reeves', 46 



Breeding and rearing, 47, 48 



Chuckling call of, 85 



Cock, a pugnacious, 87 



Colours of cocks, 47 



Colours of hens, 47 



Eating their eggs, how to 

 prevent, 48 



Eggs of, 47 



Feeding, 48 



Introduction of, 46 



Number of eggs laid by hen, 48 



Number of hens to cock, 48 



Packing, 49 



Pugnacity of cocks, 48 



Singular calling noise and 

 chuckling of, 48 



Tail of, 47 



"The pheasant of the future," 



49 



" Rocketers," 48 

 Roup, 78 

 Run, coop and, 13 

 Runs, dimensions of, 14 

 How to make, 14 



Scaly legs, 78 

 Scope of work, 3 

 Scrofulous disease, 79 

 Setting, best hens for, 19 



Eggs, 19 



Shape of permanent aviary, 4 

 Shells, supplying material to make, 



20 



Shelter for laying hens, 1 7 

 Shrubs, planting, in front of per- 

 manent aviaries, 7 



Siamese Firebacks, 50 



Colours of cocks, 50 



Colours of hens, 50 



How to keep, 50 



Introduction of, 50 



Shyness and restlessness of, 50 

 Silvers, 37 



Colours of cocks, 37 



Colours of hens, 37 



Domesticity of, 38 



Introduction of, 37 



Longevity of, in confinement, 

 38 



Number of hens to cock, 38 



Points recommending, 37 



Pugnacity of cocks, 38 

 Sitting-box, 20 

 Sitting-boxes, ventilating, 23 

 " Sitting-hen Record," 22 

 Sitting-hens, tethering, 22 



Treatment of, 20 

 Scemmerring cocks destroying their 



hens, how to prevent, 89 

 Scemmerrings, 44 



Colours of cocks, 44 



Colours of hens, 45 



Domesticity of, 45 



Introduction of, 44 



Japanese name for, 44 



Number of hens to cock, 45 



Pugnacity of males, 44 

 Soft eggs, cause of, 81 

 Soiled boards in coops, how best 



to change, 15 



Soil for permanent aviary, 4 

 Soiling from broken eggs, 23 

 Snow, birds able to withstand, 8 

 Space required to keep a pair of 



pheasants, small, 2 

 Span-roof aviary, permanent, 5 

 Stock, when to obtain, 16 

 Suburban houses, adaptability of 

 pheasants for breeding and 

 rearm in the grounds of, i 

 Swinging birds by the legs, cruelty 



Swinhoes, 42 



Beauty of, 42 

 Colours of cocks, 42 

 Colours of hens, 42 

 Introduction of, 42 



