INDEX 



251 



Coney-close, 51 

 Coney-garth, 51 

 Coneys, so styled in game laws, 



1 59 

 Cookery of the rabbit, 222 

 Coping ferrets, 87 

 Cordeaux, John, onyoungabove- 



ground, 9 

 Corsican pine, 33 

 Couch's ' Illustrations of In- 

 stinct,' 21 

 Covert for warren, 66 

 Covert-shooting, 107-109 

 Crab dislodging rabbit, 37 

 Craigincat, Perthshire, 22 

 Crows and ravens, 45, 46 

 Curry of rabbit, 243 

 Cutlets of rabbit, 247 



Damage by ground game, 176 



Day defined, 159 



Defence of young, 20, 21, 23, 39 



De Grey, Lord, rabbit shooting, 

 114 



Demesne lands, 55 



Dentition, 5 



Detention in custody, 165 



Deterioration of warrens, 74 



Difference between rabbit and 

 hare, 5 



Diseases of rabbits, 46, 63 



Distemper in ferrets, 91 



Dog chasing game, 161 

 ,, hunting in warren, 161 

 ,, liability for shooting, 161 

 ,, spreading disease, 48 



Domesticated wild rabbits, 12 



Downland, under Ground Game 

 Act, 192-193 



Eagles preying on rabbits, 44 

 Egg-stealing, 157 

 Eley, Charles, rabbit-shooting, 

 114 



Elwes, II. J., on warrens, 73 

 Enteric fever, 46 



Faggot-heaps for shelter, 63 



Feathered foes, 44 



Fecundity of wild rabbit, 8, 



38 

 Feeding, mode of, 6 

 Fencing, 34, 35, 66-68 

 Ferret, introduced by Romans, 



I. 3 

 , , origin of name, 82 ; 

 management of, 84 ; 

 transport of, 88 ; 

 weight, 84 ; breed- 

 ing of, 86 ; muzzling, 

 87 ; homing instinct, 

 89 ; feeding, 85, 91 ; 

 handling, 92 ; work- 

 ing, 92 

 Ferreting, 82-94 



,, by owner and oc- 



cupier, 209 

 ,, by poachers, 152 

 ,, hints on, 92, 93 

 Field mice, 79 

 Filaria puiinonalh, 47 

 Florence, chef to the Duke of 



Buccleuch, 241 

 Fold-nets, 75 

 Food, choice of, 28 

 ,, in winter, 35 

 Foot-rot in ferrets, 84, 92 

 Fox, 39, 67, 77, 80, III 

 Franchises and Charters override 



Ground Game Act, 202 

 Frederick II. of Germany em- 

 ploying ferrets in 124 15, 83 

 Free-warren, right of, explained, 



52-58, 161, 167 

 French novelists on the rabbit, 



231 

 Freres Proven9aux, 222 

 Fuses for bolting rabbits, 149 



