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THE RABBIT 



Oats, crushed, as winter food 



for rabbits, 37 

 ' Occupiers ' under Ground 

 Game Act, 174- 

 175, 182, 193 

 ,, of more than one 



farm, 187 

 ,, letting sporting rights, 

 196-197 

 Odd shots, 117 

 Old hay best winter food, 35 

 <Jld rabbits distinguished from 



young, II, 12 

 Onions with rabbit, 237 

 Ostend rabbits, 232 

 Overstocking, 46, 65 

 Owls and young rabbits, 45 

 ' Owners ' under Ground Game 



Act, 173, 183 

 Owners in occupation, 183, 202- 

 203, 207 



Palmer, Dr. T. S., on rabbits 



of United States, 50 

 Paraffin, 147 

 Parasitic worms, 47 

 Paston Letters, 51 

 Pasture, effect of rabbits on, 72 

 Payne-Gallwey, Sir R., on 



rabbit nets, 139 

 Pheasants versus fowl^, 223 

 Pickering, W. C. , three rabbits 



with one bullet, 125 

 Pie, rabbit, 244 



Pines attacked by rabbits, 32, 33 

 I'istol, licence required for, 201 

 Pitfalls, 76, 134 

 Pliny's notice of rabbit, i, 3 

 Poachers' ferrets, 152 

 Poaching, 150- 172 

 Poaching Prevention Act, 158, 



169-171 

 Poison illegal, 188, 202 

 Polecat, 77, 83, 86 



Potage, 222 



Prices at market, 7I1 77 

 Professional rabbit-killer, 1S5- 

 187 

 ,, appointment I if, 187 



,, form of appoint- 



ment, 188 

 , , pre duction of autho- 



rity, 189 

 Profit and loss in a warren, 65, 



71. 73 

 Proinptorium parvtdor2im^ 4? 5 1 

 Pulmonary tuberculosis, 47 

 Purchaser of standing crop, not 

 an occupier, 183 



Questions not judicially de- 

 termined, 184, 189, 192 



R.ABBITS not vermin, 200 

 Rabette, original signification 



of, 4 

 Rabettes, rost, 236 

 Rache, a hound hunting by 



scent, 4 

 Rats, 39, 40, 77, 81, 135 

 Raven, attacking rabbit, 46 

 Reservation of game and rab- 

 bits, 164 

 Resident on land defined, 185 

 Responsibilities of a shooting- 

 host, 104 

 Retrievers, 105-106 

 Reynard the fox, 83 

 Richard II., legislation as to 



ferrets, 83 

 Richelieu, boudins de, 245, 246 

 Rifles for rabbit-shooting, 121- 



123 

 Right to kill rabbits, 164 

 Riley, John, rabbit hawking, 



with goshawk, 220 

 Ringed plover, 121 

 Riote, meaning of the word, 4 



