413 



Index. 



Grey Hen, 225. (See Black 



Grouse.) 

 or Grey-backed Crow, 375 



Grit, 74, 177 



Ground vermin, 294-368 : 

 cats, 342 



ermine, 303 (Plate) 

 foxes, 266, 390-396 

 hedgehogs, 364-368 

 identifying ravages, 344 

 Mustelida, 294 (Plate) 

 polecats (Plate), 294-299, 



3 J 2 -348 



rats, 263, 349-363 

 running the posts, 331 

 stoats (Plate), 299-304, 312- 



348 



trapping, 294-368 

 weasels, 304-348 (Plate) 

 wild cats, 342 



Grouse, Black, 223-232. (See 

 Black Grouse.) 



Grouse disease, 211, 213 



Grouse, Red, 188-222. (See Red 

 Grouse.) 



Guard-dogs, 119, 221 



Guns, alarm, 408 



keepers', 402, 403 



Haddock as bait, 329 

 Hand-rearing : 



black grouse, 228 



partridges, 143, 158 



pheasants, 41, 117 



red grouse, 199, 203 



wild duck, 246 



Hands, deodorising, when trap- 

 ping' 358 

 Hares, 268-282 : 



albinos, 269 



black, 269 



Blue, 268 



breeding, 270, 276, 277 



breeding-meuse, 277 



catching-up, 278 



change of coat, 269 



coat, 268 



colours, 269 



Common, 268 



Hares (cont.) : 



courage of does, 272 



diseases, 281 



distribution, 268 



enteric fever, 281 



enteritis, 282 



feeding, 273, 279 



foods, 279 



foods, natural, 273, 278 



forms, 271, 272 



gestation period, 271 



grey, 269 



habits, 270, 272 



haunts, 272 



increasing stock, 276 



introduction, 275^ 



Irish, 268 



Lepus hibernicus, 268 



Lepus timidus, 268 



Lepus variability 268 



leverets, 271, 272, 279 



litters, 271, 272, 279 



maintenance, 275 



meuse, 277 



Mountain, 268, 269 



natural history, 268 



night-travelling, 281 



number per acreage, 277 



pairing, 270 



poaching, 280 



protection, 279 



prolificacy, 270 



rabbits compared, 273, 275, 

 284 



snow, effects of, 280 



soils, favourable, 275 



straw, attraction of, 281 



suckling-forms, 271 



turning down, 276 



typhus fever, 281 



ubiquitous nature, 270 



warrens, 276 



winter coat, 269 



winter foods, 274 



yellow, 269 



young, 271, 272, 279 

 Harrier, Hen, 387 



Marsh, 387 

 Hatching-boxes, 43, 44, 47, 201 



