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INDEX 



Food contin ued. 



percentages in summer, table, H2 



winter, nature of, 88 



greater quantity required in winter, 

 34, 81, 92, 1)4 



percentages in winter, table, 89 



proportion of animal and vegetable, 

 101 ff 



ebemical constituents, 164 



monthly dietary, 82-90, 96 f 

 Food areas, overcrowding on, 90 

 Food plants, list and description of, 97- 



101 

 Food supply 



heather-burning and, 349 



relation of to migration, 95 

 Foreign species, introduction of, (59 

 Foster mothers, unsuccessful, 453 

 Fox, methods of destruction, 405 

 Fresh blood, introduction of, 32, 441 f 



unnecessary where birds migratory, 

 441 ff 



birds apt to wander, 443 



risks of introducing, 445 

 Frost, effect of on eggs, 10 (f, 140 



on pheasants' eggs, 11 



on nematode larvae, 236, 325 



interrupting breeding, 281 



result of observations, 12 



GAMEDEALERS' licences, 413 

 ( ramekeepers, 387 f 



should be owner's servants, 388 



relations with agricultural tenants, 

 390 



terms of service, 390 



should not be paid in "kind," 390 



married and unmarried, 391 



number required, 391 



Head, 391 



Under, 



Single, 393 



area under one man's control, 391 f 



selection of, 392 



essential qualifications, 392 



personal qualities, .",94, 402 f 



the "ideal," and the inefficient, 394 



training of young, 394 



importance of keenness in, .".IK 1 . 



duties, 39(5 ff 



in " off" season, 39(5 

 in nesting season, 39(5 I' 



"Stetchworth " system, .",97 

 improving nesting ground, 398 

 drains and springs. 399 

 grit supply, 399 

 vermin killing, 399 



Gamekeepers contin wtl. 

 butt building, 400 

 " bushing " fences, 400 

 bracken, destruction of, 400 

 estimating stock, 400 

 observing nests and broods, 39(5 f 

 in shooting season, 400 ff 

 Grouse driving, 395 

 cocks, killing down, 401 

 Autumn heather-burning, 401 

 in Winter, 401 



vermin tracking in snow, 402 

 in Spring, 



heather-burning, 40i' 

 Game-laws Commission, 34(5 

 " Gapes " in Grouse, 201 

 Gastro-uterine gestation, 149 

 Geological formations 

 in Scotland, 318 

 no relation to "Disease," 318 

 Gizzard, 81, 165-6 

 Goniodes feroonw(bird louse) on Grouse, 



184 



habits, 185 

 morphology, 185 

 eggs, 185 



and skin disease, 150 

 Grazing rents and sheep rents, 347 f 

 Gregarines in Grouse, 203 



spores in alimentary canal, 203 

 Grit, 22, 107-112, 166 

 in Grouse chicks, 20, 108 

 size of, 107 f 

 weight of, 108 

 quantity of, 107 

 geological constituents of, 108 

 quart/, always preferred, J08 1', 1(!(! 

 in partridge and pheasant, 107, 109 

 artificial introduction of, 110 



during snowstorms, 112, 144 

 effect of grit-starvation, 110 

 control over loss of, 110 f 

 berries as substitute for, 1 12 

 in blackgame, 111 

 functions of, l((5 

 shot pellets as, l<>9 

 Grouse, history of name, 1 

 distribution, 1, 3 

 confined to Britain, J, 3 

 acclimatisation, 1, 2 

 gygtematkation, 2-3 

 plumage, 3, 42 

 food, 



feeding habits, 22 

 pairing, 4 

 pugnacity, 5, 147 

 nesting lialiits, 6 ff 



