Index. 



Partridges (cont.) : 



number of broods to acre, 

 147 



oat-fields for young, 147 



" packing " in flocks, 138 



pens, arrangement of, 158, 

 1 60, 164 



Perdix cinerea, 140 (Plate) 



P. d auric a, 140 



poaching, 180 



prepared meal, 146 



protection, 178 



purchasing eggs, 144 



rearing, 143 



reception of imported, 154 



Red-legged, 134, 140 (Plate) 



" roads " or tracks, 139 



round-up, general, 185 



sanctuaries, 168 



Sand, 140 



sexes, numerical ratio of, 

 184 



shelters, 173 



shooting, when it should 

 end, 185 



snaring, 180, 181 



Snow, 140 



species, 134 



Tetrao gal I us, 140 



turning down, 142, 156 



ubiquitous nature, 141 



varieties, 134 



vermin, 179, 347 



water, 177 



winter feeding, 149, 171 



winged vermin, 179 



young, feeding, 144 

 Payne-Gallwey coop, 51, 52 

 Peas as food, 74 



Perdix cinerea (Common Par- 

 tridge), 134 (Plate) 



daurica, 140 



Persian Pheasant, 14, 17 

 Phasianidcz, 14 

 Phasianus amherstiaz, 18 



chrysomelas, 17 



colchicus, 5 (Plate) 



ellioti, 1 8 



gmelini, 17 



Phasianus mongolicus, 15 



(Plate) 

 fersicus, 14 



-princi^alis, 15 (Plate) 

 reevesii, 12 (Plate) 

 reevesii hybrid, Plate 

 shawi, 17 



scemmerringii 1 8, (Plate) 

 strauchi, 17 

 talischensis, 14 

 tarimensis, 14 

 torquatus, 5 (Plate) 

 torquatus hybrid, Plate 

 versicolor, 9, n, 36 (Plate) 

 Pheasants, 1-133 



alarm-guns, 125, 408 

 albinos, n, 131 

 Amherst's, 18 (Plate) 

 ants' eggs, 126 

 blindness, 102 

 breeding, 7 

 broods, 57, 59 

 broody hens, 25, 39, 42, 48, 



67 



buying birds and eggs, 27 

 carrying-boxes for chicks, 59 

 catarrh, 99 

 catching-up, 127 

 characteristics, 6 

 chicks, feeding, 65 

 Chinese, 9 (Plate) 

 Chrysolophus -pictus, 18 



(Plate) 



cisterns for coverts, 87 

 cold or catarrh, 99 

 Common or Old English, 5 



(Plate) 



condiments, 132 

 coops, 51 



Copper, 18 (Plate) 

 coppice, 105 



coverts, 20, 104, 107, 113, 118 

 cramp, 95 

 crossed, Plate 

 crossing, 10, 12, 16, 18 

 cutting wings, 23 

 damping eggs, 48 

 dark coverts, 113 

 Dark-necked, 5, 10 



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