330 



PHEASANTS 



hen, 49 ; changes in during 

 incubation, 60-52; described, 

 45 ; determination of sex 

 in, 53 ; from game-farms, 

 222-5; hatching of, 66; 

 importation of, 32 ; in par- 

 tridge nests, 47 ; in other 

 birds' nests, 48 ; production 

 of, 226-8 ; wild gathered v. 

 aviary for rearing, 220-21, 

 260-61 

 " Euston " system, the, 125-6 

 Evans, Mr. G., M.F.H., on 

 " Dry-food " system, 230 



Flushing-coverts, 169-70 



Forestry, its relations to 

 pheasant-rearing, 132-40 



Foster and Balfour, Elements 

 of Embryology, cited 56 



Fox, The — and wild pheas- 

 ants, 124-5, 193-4 ; and the 

 rearing-field, 126-8 ; deeds 

 and misdeeds of, 110-13, 

 118-20 ; protection of nests 

 against, 124-5 ; protection 

 of rearing-field against, 126- 

 127; tolerable only in limited 

 numbers, 112-14 ; vixen and 

 cubs, problems of, 120-24 



Fox-hunting and pheasant- 

 shooting, 109-17 ; position 

 of in world of sport, 103-7 



Game - Covebts — aspect of, 

 163-4 ; adaptation of exist- 

 ing woods to serve as, 170- 

 171; artificial undercover in, 

 285-6 ; cost of plants for, 

 174-5 ; desirable size of, 

 167-8 ; drains in, 165 ; 

 forest trees for, 166, 181-2 ; 

 hedges enclosing, 173 ; hunt 

 and hounds in, 129 ; list of 



roosting trees for, 179 ; 

 marginal trees for, 182-3 ; 

 necessity for continued care 

 of, 171-2 ; qualifications of 

 ideal, 139-41 ; rides in, 165 ; 

 two distinct kinds of, 160 ; 

 water in, 164 



Grame-farms, as source of egg 

 supply, 222-5 



Gamekeeper, as forester, 154-8 



Glen-Kidston, Capt. A., letter 

 from, 285 



Goshawk, used for pheasant- 

 hawking, 76 



Grant, Mr. Ogilvie, quoted p. 

 1 (footnote), 5, 67, 191 



Guns and loads for covert 

 shooting, 296 



Hamilton, Mr. N. Dalrymple, 

 notes of covert shooting 

 by, 274^84 

 Hand-Reabed Pheasants — as 

 a mark for the gun, 210- 

 213 ; popular misconceptions 

 about, 210-11, 214; merits of, 

 216 ; cost of, 249 ; diseases 

 of, 242-9 

 Hawker, Colonel Peter, ex- 

 tracts from shooting 

 journals of, 97 

 Hawking, pheasant-, 76-7 

 High pheasants, craze for, 268 

 Holkham, description of covert 

 shooting at, 312-17 



Insect life, dearth of in con- 

 gested areas of game world, 

 252-4 



Insects eaten by pheasants, 

 list of, 62 



Japanese pheasant, the, 18-19 

 Jefferies, Richard, quoted 262 



