CONTENTS 



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XXVI. Removing the Young Pheasants to Covert • ,182 



XXVII. Enemies of the Game-rearer, and how to deal 



with them ....•• i°7 



The Magpie— The Jay— Hawks— Hooded Crows 



—The Carrion Crow — The Rook — The 



Jackdaw — Egg-eating Pheasants, and how to 



Cure them. 



XXVIII. Enemies of the Game-rearer, and how to deal 



WITH THEM [continued) . • • .206 



The Fox (Vulpes Vulgaris) — Badgers — Cats and 

 Dogs — Stoats, Weasels and Pole-Cats — Com- 

 mon Hedgehog. 



XXIX. Feeding Adult Birds in Covert . . -215 



Analysis of Foods — Best Kinds of Food. 



XXX. Pheasant-farming . . . • .225 



XXXI. High Pheasants — How to Show on Flat or Diffi- 

 cult Ground — Some Opinions of Gamekeepers . 234 



XXXII. The Disinfection and Cleansing of the Aviary, 



Coops, and other Appliances of the Pheasantry 245 

 Sulphurous Acid Gas — Chlorine Gas. 



XXXIII. Specific Diseases . . . . .251 



Roup — Tuberculosis. 



XXXIV. Parasitic Affections of the Respiratory Tract . 254 



Syngamosis, Verminous Bronchitis, or Gapes, and 

 their Treatment. 



XXXV. Mycosis of the Respiratory Tract . . .260 



XXXVI. The Digestive Organs and Ailments in connection 



therewith . . . . . . 262 



Diseases of the Digestive Apparatus — Impaction 

 of the Crop — Infectious Enteric — Measures to 

 be adopted when an Outbreak of Enteric is 

 Suspected — Liver Disease — Inflammation of 

 the Bowels — Worms. 



XXXVII. Cramp ....... 273 



XXXVIII. Disease affecting the Eyes . . . -275 



Ophthalmia. 



XXXIX. Parasitic Affections in Connection with the Skin 277 

 Scaly-leg, Treatment of this Disease — Scabies of 

 the Body, Lice and other Pests. 



XL. Vegetable and Mineral Poisons . , . 281 



Introductory — Yew Poisoning — Ivy Poisoning. 



Index ....... 285 



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