Index. 



567 



L 



Landrail, the, 149 



Habits, 149 

 Lures for vermin, 281 



M 



Magpie, the, 463 



Baits, 481 



Habits, 463 



Haunts, 465 



Single spring trap, 476 



Taking, 474 

 Martens, the, 252 

 Marten, the beech, 255 



Food, 257 



Fur, 259 



Haunts, 257 



Nest, 258 

 Marten, the pine, 252 



Habits and haunts, 253 



N 



Night Poaching Act, 542 

 O 



Otter, the, 320 



Habits, 320 



Haunts, 325 



Hunting, 327 



Trap, 329 



Trapping, 330 

 Owls, 492 



Brown, the, 497 



Long-eared, the, 496 



Short-eared, the, 496 



Partridge, the, 74 

 Cries, 79 

 Habits, 75 

 Haunts, 74 

 Natural history, 74 

 Varieties, 74 



Partridge, the red-legged, 80 



Exterminating, 92 



Partridges, introduction, 82 



"Bachelors," 99 



Bushing fields, 97 



Diseases, 90 



Egg stealing, 98 



Food for young, 85 



Poaching, 96 



Protection, 94 



Rearing by hand, 84 



Snaring, 98 



Winter food, 89 

 Pheasants, i 



Breeding and rearing, 3, 7 



Buying eggs and birds, 19 



Catching birds, 69 



Chicks, treatment of, 31, 37 



Coverts, 48 



Coverts, improving, 50 



Cramp and cold, 41 



Diseases, 40 



Eggs, 70 



Egg stealing, 59 



Encouragement to remain, 68 



Feeding in coverts, 63, 66 



Feeding, time and mode of, 35 



Field for rearing, 36 



Food, 5 



Food for pen pheasants, 13 



Food for young pheasants, 33 



Food shelter, 65 



Gapes, 44 



General management, 63 



Hand-rearing, 22 



Hatching boxes, 27 



Hatching eggs, 24, 29 



Hatching house, 25 



Haunts, 2 



Hens for pen-rearing, 7 1 



Hingling, 58 



Introduction, 7 



Laying in confinement, 15 



Maintaining a stock, 17 



