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THE GROUSE 



Economy of grouse, 04-66 



Falcons, 53 



Flags for driving, 188 



Flankers, 189 



Food-supply, 33, 44, 45, 120, 



121, 134 

 Forests, ancient, 8 



barbarity of laws, 11, 57 



Leges Foresturum, 8 



protection of, 10 

 Fox, 53 



Game, 58 



Gamekeepers, attributes of 

 good, 41, 42 

 old race of, 92 

 Game laws, 57, 58 

 Grit, 60 



Grouse, annual expenses of 

 sbooting, 28, 29 

 distribution of the, 144- 



147 

 family history, 1, 2, 125 

 food of, 44, 64, 120-122, 



132 

 great bags of, 66-68 

 number killed, 28 

 plumage, 2 



preservation of, 33, 34 

 shootings, 66-68, 84, 120, 



134 

 shot by driving, 66-68 

 shot over dogs, 69 

 stocks of, 43 

 value per brace, 28 

 and sheep, 62 

 and vermin, 47 

 "The 12th of August," 

 70-80 

 Grouse disease, 3, 41, 45, 108, 

 114-117, 120-134 

 parasitical character of, 

 126-133 



Grouse disease, periodicity 

 of, 133 

 symptoms of, 131 

 Grouse disease inquiry, 109- 



114, 123-132 

 Guns, choice of, 203 

 cost of, 204 



Hawks, 53 



Heather, age of, at burning, 



95 

 ancient uses of, 82 

 bracken encroaching on, 



63, 96 

 control of, 64, 93, 94 

 extent to be burnt, 98 

 frosted, 44, 121 

 growth and management of, 



82, 96 

 indigenous to moorlands 



in United Kingdom, 



83 

 indispensable to grouse, 1 

 ling {Calluna vulgaris), 



44 

 old, 121 

 present uses and value of, 



83 

 requires little cultivation, 



83 

 romance of the, 82 

 slowness of growth, 96 

 varieties of, 82 

 Heather burning, 38, 84-91, 



95-97, 104 

 early or late, 105 

 early writers on, 89 

 improper and injurious, 



102, 103 

 laws concerning, 86, 87 

 present - day writers on, 



89, 90 

 methods of, 99-101, 106 

 Hedgehog, 53 



