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INDEX 



Cestodes continued. 



intermediate hosts unknown, 193 

 development of, 192 ff 

 " Cheepers " and late birds, 434 ff 

 should be killed out, 434 

 liable to " Disease," 436 f 

 fate of, 436 f 



Claws, as guide to age, 77 

 Claw-shedding, 77 

 Cloudberry as food, 98 

 Cobbold's theory of " Grouse Disease," 



153 ff 

 Coccidiosis, 246 ff 



may occur in man, 248 

 in rabbits, 247, 255 

 affects all birds, 248, 271 f 

 in turkeys" blackhead," 269 

 in Grouse, 246 ff 



rarely fatal to adults, 246, 257, 258 

 fatal to chicks, 18 f, 204, 257, 262, 



200 



affecting liver, 25(5 

 duodenal, 255 

 typhlitic, 255 

 confined to digestive tract, 204, 



255 



accompanied by amentia, 253, 254 

 symptoms, 253 

 effect on weight, 250 



,, on appearance, 254 f 

 in hand-reared Grouse, 454 

 infection, artificial, 258 



natural (by water), 258 

 associated with bacterial infection, 



256 



leucocytosis in, 25(5 

 dissemination by insects, 204, 258 

 ,, . by birds, 270 

 ,, in dry weather, 258, 



207 ff 



preventive measures, 265, 267 

 burning dead bodies, 2655 

 heather-burning; 265 



sanitary precautions, 2(58 11' 

 treatment, _'7' 



catechu, 270 



Oocddiwn (Kintcrid) (iriiini, 204, 247 fl' 

 habitat, 204 

 life history, 248 

 morphology, 248 II 

 sporo/oite stage, 24K. 252 

 trophozoite stage, 24H 

 schizogony, 248 



merozoites, 240 

 gametogony, 249 



encystment, 249 



sexual differentiation, 240 



Coccidium con tinned. 

 fertilisation, 252 

 periodicity, 252 

 sporogony. 252 



onset means recovery or death of 



host, 257 



oocysts, vitality of, 259, 260 

 effect of moisture on, 259 



,, of drying on, 261 

 reagents destructive to, 266 

 effect on host, 252 f 



,, on weight of Grouse, 253, 254 

 as inseminating bacteria, 25(5 

 insect carriers of, 204 

 Cocits, old, killing, down, 401 



uselessness of, 437 f 

 Collision with wire, 119 

 Conditions, local, affecting Grouse, 273 



course of investigation, 322 

 Corn feeding, 29, 95, 145, 332 



relation to disease, 146, 178 ff, 332 

 injury from, 95 f 



unusual effect on blackgame, 121 ff 

 poaching and, 412 

 Cranberry as food, 08 

 Crop, 165 



never contains water, 106, 166 

 accidental injury to, 127, 134 f 

 shot pellets in 1:5 

 Crop contents. 70 II 

 weight of, 70 

 table of weights, 80 

 table of monthly averages, 82, 80 

 chart of percentages of foods, 93 

 of Willow Grouse, 144 

 of Blackgame, 380 

 Crossing of blood , 44 1 II 

 Crow, as vermin, 408 f 

 Crowberry as food, 99 



DArAlNKA t'ESUMLU'S, 100 



rare in Grouse, 199 

 intermediate host, 100 

 Ihu'dini'd nr<>(/fi//i (Lar^e Tapeworm), 



107 



effect on host, 1 70 

 habitat, small intestine, 108, 170, 108 



aii'l bacterial infection, 21'.) 



morphology, 108 



intermediate host, not discovered, 



194 ff 

 Dew, 107 

 Dew-pans, :j:5!) 

 Diarrhoea, "white," 271 

 Digestion, process of, 81, 105 f 



chemical reactions in, 168 f 

 JJijttera, parasitic, 186 ff 



