506 



INDEX 



Fighting, mortality from, 181 

 Filaria smithi, 218 

 Fires, accidental, 400 

 Flagellata, 325 

 Fleas on Grouse, 362 ff 

 Flies on Grouse, 358 tf 

 Flight, powers of, 26 

 Flooding, 15, 16 ; ii. 129 



Food, heather nearly all-important, 70, 81, 398 ; ii. 

 129 



but not indispensable, 69, 70 



various, 70, 77, 84-87 



heather seed, 74, 76, 153 ; ii. 129 



berries, 73, 74, 455 



insects, 77, 78, 88, 89, 90, 100, 369 



corn, 25, 81,82, 113, 382 



percentages in summer, table, 70 



winter, nature of, 25, 75 



greater quantity required in winter, 79, 132, 

 399 



percentages in winter, table, 76 



proportion of animal and vegetable, 90-91 



chemical constituents, 100 



monthly dietary, 83 ff 

 Food areas, overcrowding on, 81, 136, 376, 379, 



400 



Food plants, list and description of, 83-87 

 Food supply 



heather burning and, 898, 400 



conditions affecting stock, 455 



relation of to migration, 81 

 Foreign species, introduction of, 53 

 Foster mothers, unsuccessful, 485-486 

 Fox, methods of destruction, 445 

 Fresh blood, introduction of, 28, 53, 475, 477-478 



unnecessary where birds migratory, 477 



birds apt to wander, 477 



risks of introducing, 478 



objections to introducing, 479 



Frost, effect of on eggs, 10, 11, 12, 173; ii. 129, 

 132 . 



on pheasants' eggs, 11 ; ii. 134 



Analysis of observations on, ii. 132 ff 



interrupting breeding, ii. 133 



result of observations, ii. 136 



GAM ASUS COLEOPTRATORUM (beetle-mite) on Grouse, 



365 



Gamedealers' licences, 452, 499 

 Gamekeepers, 430 ff 



importance of, 430 



should be owner's servants, 430, 432 



relations with agricultural tenants, 432 



terms of service, 433 



should not be paid in " kind," 433 



married and unmarried, 433 



pension fund, 4!!3 



number required, 434 



Head, 434-435 



Under, 434-435 



area under one man's control, 434-435 



selection of, 435 



essential qualifications, 435 



personal qualifications, 436 



Gamekeepers continued 



the " ideal " and the inefficient, 430-437 

 training of young, 436 

 importance of keenness in, 436 

 duties, 438 ff 



in "off" season, 438 

 in nesting season, 438 ff 



" Stetchworth " system, 438-439 

 improving nesting ground, 440 

 drains and springs, 440 

 grit supply, 440 

 vermin killing, 441 

 butt building, 441 

 " bushing " fences, 441 

 bracken, destruction of, 441 

 estimating stock, 441 

 observing nests and broods, 459 

 in shooting season, 442 ff 

 Grouse driving, 436-437 

 cocks, killing down, 442, 453 

 Autumn heather-burning, 442 

 in Winter, 442 



vermin tracking in snow, 443 

 total of wages paid to, 495 

 Game-laws Commission, 394 

 Game licences, economic value of, 499 

 "Gapes" in Grouse, 213 

 Geological formations 

 in Scotland, ii. 139 

 no relation to " Disease," ii. 139 f 

 Gizzard, 102, 103, 106, 111 



in Grouse chicks, schedule of all specimens 



examined, ii. 27-85 



floniodes tetruonis (bird louse) on Grouse, 348"ff 

 habits, 349 

 morphology, 349-356 

 eggs, 356 



and skin disease, 183-184 

 Grazing rents and sheep rents, 396 

 Gregarines in Grouse, 330 



spores in alimentary canal, 330 

 Grit, 94 ff 



in Grouse chicks, 18 



eagerly sought for, 20 



size of, 95 



weight of, 95 



quantity of, 95 



geological constituents of, 95 



quartz, always preferred, 96, 97, 99, 102 



garnets and glass beads rejected, ii. 94 f 



in partridge and pheasant, 96 



artificial introduction of, 97, 440 



during snowstorms, 177 ; ii. 94 

 effect of grit-starvation, 97 ; ii. 92 ff 

 control over loss of, 97, 98, 114 ; ii. 92 ff 

 berries as substitute for, 98, 103 

 in blackgame, 99 

 functions of, 100 

 shot pellets as, 103, 169 

 Grouse, history of name, 1 

 distribution, 1, 3 

 confined to Britain, 53 

 acclimatisation, 1, 2 

 economic importance, 2, 492 ff 



