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INDEX 



Crouch, River, 424 



Crow, Carrion, destruction as vermin, 136, 



177,217,482 



increase as scavengers, 395 

 increase during War, 396 

 Hooded, destruction of, 137 

 prehistoric remains of, 18 

 protection as scavengers, 224, 225, 226 

 Ciyptopleurum, increase of, 396 

 Cuckoo, 234 

 Culdross, 289 

 Cultivation, breaking in of waste lands, 365, 



481, 485 

 change of habit induced in animals by, 



400-416 

 decrease of animal life due to, 365-386, 



488 



destruction of forest for, 322 

 disappearance of ague due to, 512 

 increase of animal life due to, 387-396, 



484, 485, 486, 487, 493-496 

 influences on animal life, 363417 



proportion of land in, 484, 493 

 Cumberland, 293 

 Cumbrae, 280 



" Cunningares." See Rabbit-warrens 

 Cunningham, J. T., 150 

 Cupar, 447 



Abbey, 250, 376 

 Curie, A. O., 214, 316, 426 



James, 72, 79 

 Curlew, 266, 363 



decline due to reclamation of swamps, 

 376, 377 



price, 140 

 Currie, 55, 86 

 Cydia {Carpocarpsa) pomonflla. See Moth, 



Codlin 

 Cyprinus carpio. See Carp 



"Daddy-long-legs," increase of, 392 

 Dalkeith, 292, 293, 435 



Palace, 286, 292 

 Dalmeny, 290 

 Dalmuir, 10 

 Dalnaglar, 126 

 Dalnaspidal, 399 

 Dairy, 158 



Forest of, 126 

 Dalzell, Sir J., 259 

 Damon, Mr, 154 

 Danube, River, 469 

 Daphnia pulex, 373 

 Darenth Wood, Kent, 446 

 Dark Forest, the, 314 

 Darnaway, Forest of, 133, 334, 358 

 Dartford, 446 



Darwin, Charles, 95, 98, 323 

 Dawkins, Prof. Boyd, 56 

 Day Poaching Act, 205 

 Decoys, destruction of wild-fowl by, 139 

 Dee, River, 272, 293, 294 

 Deeside, 165 



Deer, conclusions regarding the race of, 349 

 Elk, g. v . 



export of skins, 155, 156 

 Fallow, introduction for amenity, 



284-287, 496 

 protection of, 213, 286 

 foreign, failure to acclimatize, 254 

 Giant Fallow, 14, 50, 52f.-n., 68, 481 

 "Irish Elk." See Giant Fallow Deer 



above 



Japanese, introduction of, 287, 288 

 Red, banishment from lowlands owing to 

 pasturage of sheep flocks, 42, 331, 

 334, 486 

 denizen of ancient Scottish forests, 308, 



3", 329 



destruction as pest, 181, 212 

 destruction for sport, 138, 187, 207, 



213 

 effect of destruction of forest upon, 



333~33 8 > 35 

 fewer numbers in modern Scotland, 



493 



importation from Germany, 264 

 in Jura, 212, 492 

 in Lowlands, 207 

 introduced into New Zealand, 242 

 physical degeneracy, 16, 335, 489 

 prehistoric and early remains, 16, 30, 



31, 34, 284,331, 333, 336, 337 

 protection for food, 217 

 protection for sport, 207-213, 286, 485 

 restriction of range, 208, 333, 334, 486 

 Reindeer, q.v. 

 Roe, denizen of ancient Scottish forests, 



308, 322, 329 

 effect of destruction of forest upon, 



330-333 



physical degeneracy of, 332, 490 

 prehistoric and early remains of, 16, 



31, 284, 330, 331 

 protection for food, 217 

 protection for sport, 213 

 restriction of range, 330 

 transportation of, 280 

 royal hunts in Atholl, 119, 210-211,265, 



283, 285, 331, 355 

 Virginian, introduction of, 254, 287 

 Wapiti, introduction of, 254 

 Deer forests, 207 



of Jura, 212, 492 

 Deerness, 250 

 Denmark, 43 r 



Dermacentor reticulatus, 423 

 Dermanyssus gallinae, 423 

 Derwent, River, 276 

 Destruction of animals, as vermin and pests, 



176-183, 212 

 deliberate, 108-196,488 

 due to cultivation and civilization, 365- 



386, 488 

 for food, 138-154 

 for pleasure or luxury, 189-196 



