INDEX 



Accessibility, 37 



Back flanking, 190 

 Badger, 52 



Balance of Nature, 46 

 Beaters for driving, 18-5-187 

 Blackgame, an October day 

 after, 238-257 

 aspects of legal close time, 



233-235 

 habits in autumn, 236, 



237 



reasons for decrease of, 

 258 



records of, 259, 260 

 Bracken, 41, 62, 106, 107 

 Butts, considerations deter- 

 mining sites of, 176 et seq. 



desirable slopes for lines 

 of, 175 



details of construction of, 

 181-183 



distance between, 179 



Caledonian forests, 83 



Chase, 57 



Clothes for grouse shooting, 



207 

 Colquhoun, John, 53 

 Crows, 53 



Decomposing bodies, 61 



Deer forests, effects on food- 

 supply, 34 

 number of, 29 

 vermin in forests, 120 

 Distances to shoot at, 222, 

 223 

 cruelty of shooting at long, 

 224 

 Distribution of the grouse, 



144-147 

 Dogs, 38 



grouse-driving, 208 

 shooting over, 150 et seq. 

 Drive, careful shooting neces- 

 sary at end of, 226 

 picking up birds after, 227 

 Driven grouse, difficulties to 



novice, 229 

 Drives, examples of, 194 etseq. 



length of, 191, 192 

 Driving grouse, 66-68, 120 

 Driving, advantages of, 158- 

 161 

 doubtful results in High- 

 lands, 159 

 early days of, 155-157 

 ground necessary for, 165 

 laying out a moor for, 173 



et seq. 

 versus dogs, 139 et seq. 



Eagles, 53, 54 



283 



