130 Practical Game Preserving. 



taking steps to see it does not burn off your crop of birds 

 as well as to the shepherd also the offensive heather. Of 

 egg-stealing and of egg-destroying we need say nothing 

 further than what we mentioned when treating of pheasants. 

 We have now described the furred, feathered, and clothed 

 opponents to the preserver of grouse. The steps to be 

 taken to thwart them are sufficiently obvious to need no com- 

 ment. To poaching and its votaries we propose to devote 

 a separate chapter later on ; to vermin, several. 



