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tral guns, 247 ; changingpositions 

 of shooters, 248; how the shooters 

 should stand, 249-251 ; artificial 

 and natural shelters for shooters, 

 251, 252 ; how to kill, 253 ; dress, 

 253 ; how to preserve, 256-261 ; 

 how to surmount natural ob- 

 stacles, 261 ; and prevent cattle 

 from trespassing, 261 ; use buck- 

 skin glove for shooting, 262 



Patent medicines for pheasants, ii. 

 109 



Patterns of guns, i. 67, 68: the 

 meaning of patterns, 225 ; what 

 guns should do, 225-227 ; even 

 and irregular spreads illustrated, 

 227-230 



Penetration of a gun, i. 11 ; how to 

 test, 234-242 



Pens for pheasant rearing, and 

 their construction, ii. 39-49 



Perches, roosting, for young phea- 

 sants, ii. 43, 104 



Peregrines, ii. 302 



Pettitt's pads for penetration test- 

 ing, i. 237-241 



Pheasant rearing, why artificial 

 means were adopted, ii. 20 ; 

 scarcity owing to bad mothers 

 and vermin, 20, 21 ; methods 

 adopted for preserving, 22 ; suc- 

 cess of artificial breeding, 22, 

 23 ; natural wildness of the 

 birds, 24 ; difficulties in rearing, 

 24 ; eggs, and their treatment 

 before and during hatching time, 

 25-31, 35-38, 44, 53, 54, 68, 75- 

 82, 88-91 ; when to seek for 

 hen pheasants, 31 ; on stocking 

 the woods with them, 31 ; over- 

 stocking, and how to discover 

 the capabilities of preserves, 31- 

 33 ; how to distinguish tame from 

 wild, 32, 33 ; proportion of hens 

 to male birds, 33-35 ; feeding the 

 coverts, 35 ; construction, cost, 

 and management of aviaries, 39- 

 56 ; full v. clipped winged birds 



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for stocking, 56, 57 ; on catching 

 up young birds, 57 ; and wild 

 birds, 57, 58; dealers' birds, 58; 

 methods for trapping young tame 

 birds, 58-60 ; and full-grown wild 

 birds, 60-63; on feeding and 

 cleansing penned pheasants, 63- 

 68; egg-eaters and feather-pull- 

 ers, 69 ; forcing mixtures, 69 ; 

 routine of rearing, 70-72 ; pro- 

 tection from vermin, 70, 75, 86, 

 87; selection of a field, 72-75; 

 nesting boxes and coops, 77-82, 

 128-136 ; setting hens and their 

 management, 82-87; hatching 

 out, 91-93 ; preparations of the 

 rearing field, 94-96 ; removal of 

 the birds to, 97-99 ; management 

 there, 100-109 ; feeding the young 

 pheasants, 101, 103, 105-109; 

 the proper food for, 109-119 ; on 

 giving them water, 119-121 ; 

 their diseases : gapes, 122-124 ; 

 other ailments, 125-127 ; dainties 

 for sickly birds, 125, 126 ; treat- 

 ment, 126, 127 ; selection of an 

 estate for preserving, 137-147 ; 

 cost of rearing, preserving, and 

 feeding, 147-153 



j Pheasant shooting with choke and 

 cylinder bores, i. 70, 71, 79 ; 

 rocketing pheasants, mistaken 

 notions regarding height, 74, 75 ; 

 results of experiments with choke ' 

 and cylinders illustrated, 85-88; 

 near shots, 111 ; difficult shots, 

 138 ; velocity of the birds com- 

 pared with shot, 153, 154 ; suit- 

 able shot, 210 ; driving and 

 walking up contrasted, ii. 3, 4, 

 7, 8 ; a successful day's sport 

 defined, 160 ; an unsuccessful 

 day, 161 ; sportsmen like shoot- 

 ing, 162 ; a high shot, 162, 163; 

 face the covert, 163 ; high side 

 birds, 163 ; high straight over, 

 164; a low shot, 164, 165; 

 spare the hens, 165, 166; on 



