INDEX 



463 



Grouse continued. 



eggs, 7 f 



care of brood > 15 



dangers to chicks, 15 f 



habits of chicks, 15 



migration, 16 



wildness, 22 



hardiness, 24 



longevity, 41 



minor diseases, 116 if 



resistance to disease, 243, 326 



recuperative powers, 118 if 



eifect of weather on, 275 ff 



numbers vary with rainfall, 320 



methods of shooting, 422 if 



netting, 412, 414 



(See under separate headings) 

 Grouse chicks, 15 ff 



dangers to, 15 



disappearance of, 16 ff 



drowning, 17 f 



food, 20, 101 ff 



insect, 101-104, 194 f 

 vegetable, 104 



flight of, 21 



liable to Coccidiosis, 248 ff 

 "Grouse Disease," see " Disease" 

 Grouse driving, 26 f, 423 



advantages of, 426 



disadvantages, 425 



effect on yield, 426 



history of, 426 



results in England, 426 f 

 in Scotland, 426 f 



rules for, 428 



gamekeepers' duties, 395 



management of, 395 



heather-burning for, 357 



minor days, 428 



young and old killed by, table, 440 



crossing of blood by, 425, 446 



on Broomhead Moor, 446 f 

 Grouse fly (Ornithomyia lagopodis), 182, 

 188 



morphology, 189 



habits, 189 



blood-sucking by, 182, 189 



of ectoparasites, 187 

 Grouse in capacity, 450 ff 



coops, 450 



food, 455 



water, 451 



grit, 455 



mating experiments, 454 



change of ground, 456 



late nesting of, 457 



Coccidiosis in, 454 



I Grouse shooting ; in former years, 347 

 to regulate stock, 422 ff 

 methods of, 422 ff 

 over dogs, 423 

 advantages, 423 

 disadvantages, 424 

 rules for, 424 

 young and old killed by (table), 



440 



driving, see Grouse driving 

 Gulls, as vermin, 410 



HsEMOPROTEUS MANSONI, 202 

 Hand-rearing, 446 ff, 450 ff 

 coops, 450 

 food, 455 

 water, 451 



result of experiments, 454 

 Hatching, date of, 14 

 period of incubation, 14 

 early, value of, 434 

 late, result of, on stock, 435 



on weight, 37 



Hawks, not all are vermin, 410 

 Heath, cross - leaved (Erica tetralix), 



90,99 



Heather, bell (Erica cinerea), 99 

 Heather, common (Galluna vulgaris), 97 

 importance of as food, 81 f 

 not indispensable, 81 

 old, as food, 83 f 



uselessness of, 84, 351 f 

 various types, 82 ff 

 winter^ 82, 351 

 dwarf, 71, 83 

 short and long, 83, 351 

 young, most nutritious, 85 

 growth from seed, 85 

 ,, from root, 85 

 seedlings eaten by sheep, 85 

 and by young Grouse, 85 

 not by adults, 85 

 blossom, 87, 97 

 seed, 87, 88 ff, 97 



not eaten after January, 88 

 "frosted," 141,328 



term defined, 142 

 good grain year, good year for, 87 

 effect on of weather, 275 ff 

 burning, see Heather-burning 

 raking, in time of snow, 143, 402 

 Heather beetle (Lochmcea suturalifi), 



370 



as causing " frosted " heather, 371 

 former observations of, 371 

 distribution, 371 

 correspondence regarding, 373 f 



