PHEASANTS IN COVERT AND AVIARY 



for keeping Foxes off the rearing-field. Luminous paint is 

 a very useful preparation, and one that, if not a preventive 

 for keeping Foxes away, does, to a large extent, afford 

 an additional means of protection. Either the coops or 

 triangular tablets of wood may be painted and placed in 

 various parts of the rearing-field or else at the covert side. 



If cocoanut-fibre string, such as is used by gardeners 

 and by harvestmen under the name of " Binder Twine," 

 be well saturated with some substance such as Reynardine, 

 and then several runs of it be fastened to stakes around the 

 field to the height of about a couple of feet, it will help to 

 keep these troublesome pests away. The only objection to 

 it is that the dressing has to be frequently repeated, 

 otherwise it loses its efficaciousness. In many instances 

 Reynard becomes so troublesome that in spite of all the 

 keeper's devices he is able to outwit the lot of them. 



A number of good yelping curs on running chains 

 attached to wire around the field sometimes prove a means 

 of overcoming the difficulty. 



Badgers {Melus Taxus or Ursus Meles) 



Also known as the brock, the pate or the grey, is not 

 uncommon in certain localities, and there are good reasons 

 for believing that he is troublesome to game at times. 

 The weight of a male is about 25 lbs., and the female 

 slightly less. They are very fond of eggs of game birds 

 and will hunt hedgerows in search of them, so that it is 

 better to get rid of them. Various devices are employed, 

 a simple one being an open sack. When the Badgers are 

 away from home, a sack with a running noose is placed in 

 the mouth of each of the most frequented holes and the 

 surrounding covert then hunted to put the Badger into the 



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