INDEX 



Aardvark, the, 242 



Achill Island, 191 



Addison and fox-hunting-, 125-6 



Afghanistan, landrail in, 65-6 



Ale, home-brewed, and farm labour- 

 ers, 38 ; wooden bottles for, 38 



Alford, 320 



Alfred the Great, 89 



Amelia, Princess, 215 



Amory, Sir John, and Exmoor 

 stag-hunting, 120 



Andersson, C. J., 161, 163; on Cape 

 cormorants, 167 ; and kestrel in 

 South Africa, 200 



Anna, Princess, 215 



Anstruther Thomson, Col., 36, 121, 

 132 



Ardilaun, Lord, famous woodcock 

 coverts of, 71 



Arran Islands, 226 



Ashburnham, Sir Anchitel, and 

 landrails, 301 



Ashburton, Lord, 280 



Ashby, decoy at, 20 



Ashford (co. Galway), woodcock- 

 shooting at, 71 



Atlantic, beauties of, 226 



Aurungzebe, 214 



Australia, quail-shooting in, 106 



Autolycus, 224-5 



Autumn by the shore, 288-92 



Avocet, the, 161-2 



Avon, the, 307 



Axe Vale hounds, badger-hunting 

 with the, 238 



Ay res, Mr. T., 66, 153 I 



Y 32 



Bacon, and the dotterel, 299 



Badger : the destruction of, in 

 Yorkshire, 235 ; and huntsmen, 

 236 ; Beckford and, 237 ; Nicholas 

 Cox and, 237 ; baiting, 238 ; hunt- 

 ing, with hounds, 238; natural his- 

 tory and distribution of, 239 ; and 

 honey, 239-40 ; in South Africa, 

 240 ; old names of, 240 ; weight 

 of, 240 ; habits and food of, 

 241-2, 245-8 ; in winter, 242 ; 

 a good swimmer, 242 ; digging 

 feats of, 243 ; young of, 244 ; 

 Buffon's anecdote of, 244 ; in 

 captivity, 245-8; as "drag" for 

 hounds, 248; St. John and, 243-8 ; 

 in the downs, 306 



Badminton hounds, 131 



Bags, great partridge, 280-1 



Baron's Court, woodcock-shooting 

 at, 71 



Baron Hirsch, 281 



Basset hounds, 120 



" Bats," Sussex, 9 



Beachy Head, 297 



Beagles, 207 



Bechuanaland, British, snipe in, 318 



Beckford, Peter, i2i, 204-5, 210; 

 and badger, 237 



Bee-eaters, 156 



Bellenden, Mrs., 216 



Beltra, Lough, 96-100 



Belvoir, the, 131 



Berkeley Castle, decoy ati'iS, 19 



Bethell, Mary, 207 



Bewick, Thomas, 210 



