326 



PARTRIDGES 



Partridge - driving, portable 



shelters for, 253-256 

 summary of rules regulat- 

 ing successful conduct of, 

 285-288 

 wattled hurdles as butts, 



256 



Partridge preservation, diffi- 

 culty of formulating 

 rules about, 134 

 Partridge, range of common, 



32 

 Partridge - shooting as a 



national asset, 6 

 comparative cost of, 210- 



211 

 cost on a small scale, 211- 



212 



early records of, 315 

 in France, 319 

 in Germany, 318 

 in Hungary, 321-322 

 in Portugal, 319-320 

 Partridge, the French, 26- 



30 



the Lerwa, 18 

 roast, no improvement pos- 

 sible on, 54-56 

 Partridges and politics, 1 



et seq. 



foreign species, possible in- 

 troduction of, 24-25 

 hand-rearing of, 113 

 notes on foreign species 

 turned down at Woburn 

 Abbey, 25-26 

 on grass lands, 129 

 [. suffer from clogged feet on 



clay soils, 52 

 the snow, 19-20 

 Patshull estate, notes from, 



149-152 



Perdix barbata, 21-22 

 montana, 37-39 



Perdrix a la mode d' Alcantara, 



58 

 aux choux, 56-57 



Peregrine falcon, 199-200 



Pickenham Hall, notes from, 

 154-158 



Pine marten, the, 189 



Pointer, best type of, for 



utility, 227 



disuse of partridge-shoot- 

 ing, 225 



scope for profitable employ- 

 ment of, under modern 

 conditions, 226 



Polecat, the, 189 



Pole trap, 205 



Politicians, ill - considered 

 utterances of, about 

 sport, 1 et seq. 



Poultry on stubbles, 203 



Preston Hall, notes from, 

 138-139 



Rat, 183-190 



agent in spreading disease, 



188 



fecundity of, 185 

 game preserves responsi- 

 bility for, 186-187 

 means of destruction of, 



206-207 

 strange toleration of. 185- 



186 



the black, 189 

 the brown, 189 

 Rat question, Chambers of 

 Agriculture recommend- 

 ation about, 187 

 Rats, destruction of, 94 

 Records, the true value of, 



308-310 



Remises, 112-113 

 Retrievers, recent improve- 

 ment in work of, 227-228 



