Index. 



416 



Partridges (cont.) : 



Bohemian, 153 



brooding, 185 



brooding by cocks, 187 



broody hens, 144 



bushing fields to prevent 

 netting, 180, 183 



buying eggs, 143 



Caccabis melanoce-phala, 140 



C. rufa, Plate 



C. saxatilis, 140 



carrying-box for chicks, 163 



catching-up, 163 



characteristics, 134, 135 



cocks as brooders, 187 



cocks, old, 185 



collecting eggs, 144 



Common, 134 (Plate) 



Continental system, 151, 

 158, 176 



coops, 144 



cover for enclosure, 159 



cry, 138, 139 



custard, 145 



damping eggs, 144 



diseases, 147 



driving, 151 



egg-collecting, 144 



eggs, damping, 144 



eggs, destroying and steal- 

 ing, 179, 181 



eggs, number of, in clutch, 



137 



eggs, obtaining, 143 

 enclosures for rearing, 158, 



164 



English, 134 

 Euston system of rearing, 



186 



feeding, 137, 144, 155, 170 

 feeding-shelters, 173 

 feeding-times, 177 

 feet, clogged, 150 

 foods, 170 

 foods, natural, 137 

 foreign, 151 

 Francolin, 140 

 Francolinus francolinus, 140 

 French, 134, 140 (Plate) 



Partridges (cont.) : 



French system of rearing, 



152, 158, 176 

 frost, care during, 149 

 German, 153 

 grain, 171, 176 

 grit, 177 



ground-vermin, 179, 347 

 habits, 135, 139 

 hand-rearing, 143, 158 

 hardiness, 137 

 hatching, 137 



hatching-pens, 160, 162, 166 

 haunts, 134, 135 

 hens, preponderance of, 184 

 higher preservation, 141 

 hingling, 181 

 Hungarian, 151 

 identifying imported birds, 



156 



importation, 152, 154 

 increasing stock, 142 

 incubation, 137 

 insect food, 137, 144 

 introducing, 142, 143 

 " jug," or juck," 138, 139 

 localities, suitable, 135 

 maize, 171, 176 

 marking imported birds, 157 

 mating, 137, 161, 162 

 meal foods, 146 

 meals, number of, 145 

 meat food, 176 

 migratory, 152 

 monogamous, 136 

 Moorland, 139 

 Mountain, 139 

 mowing - time, precautions 



at, 148 



natural history, 134 

 nests, 136, 138, 144 

 nests, searching for and 



marking, 182 

 nests, surrounding, with 



netting, 187 

 netting, 180 

 new blood, 157 

 new species that might be 



introduced, 140 



