Index. 



418 



Pheasants (cont.) : 

 diarrhoea, 100 



difficulties in introducing, 21 

 diseases, 67, 90 

 dogs as guards, 119 

 drinking-water, 85 

 drives, 108 

 dust -baths, 48 

 egg-food, 100 

 eggs, artificial, 38, 39 

 eggs, buying, 27 

 eggs, collecting, 24, 27 

 eggs, damping, 48 

 eggs, destruction of, 123 

 eggs, number of, in clutch, 



2 4 



eggs, removing, 39 

 eggs, stealing, 122 

 eggs, successive clutches of, 



4 1 



eggs, supply of, on large 

 preserves, 30 

 testing, 48 



eggs, testn 

 Elliot's, 18 



enteritis, 98 



Eu-plocamus nycthemerus, 18 



(Plate) 

 Euston system of hatching, 



130 



fancy, 18 

 feeding, 64, 126 

 feeding-huts, 79 

 feeding penned birds, 37 

 fir woods, 105 

 flushing-trigs, 112 

 food, 9, 64, 126 

 food-hoppers, 82 

 food-losses through wood- 



pigeons, &c., 132 

 food-shelters, 79 

 Forked Worm, 92 

 froth, 97 

 gapes, 92 



garlic as a lure, 71 

 general management, 64 

 Golden, 18, 19 (Plate) 

 Grafton's (Duke of) system 



of hatching, 130 

 grain foods, 69, 72, 73 



Pheasants (cont.) : 

 green food, 70 

 grit, 74 



ground-vermin, 115 

 habits, 5 



hand-rearing, 41, 51, 117 

 hardiness, 90 

 hatching, 41, 130 

 hatching-boxes and runs, 43, 



47 



hatching-house and runs, 44 

 hatching-season, 8 

 haunts, 6 

 hedges surrounding coverts, 



"3 



hens to cock, number of, 7, 



23, 36, 130 



higher preservation, 29 

 hingling, 124 

 hospital, 67 

 hybrid, Plate 

 Impeyan, 18 (Plate) 

 increase of stock, 26 

 incubation, 8, 41 

 incubators, 42 

 insect food, substitutes for, 



126 

 introducing, upon an estate, 



20 



Japanese, 9, n, 17 (Plate) 

 keepers' huts, 120, 121 

 keepers' paths in coverts, 



no 



Kohinoor, 17 

 Ladah, 17 



Lady Amherst's, 18 (Plate) 

 larches, roosting in, 105 

 layers, selecting, 35 

 laying-pens, 32 

 liver disease, 101 

 Lo-pho-phorus Fhuysii, Plate 

 L. refulgens, Plate 

 maintenance of stock, 26 

 maize, 73 

 mating, 7 

 meal foods, 68 

 meal-times, 76 

 meat foods, 70, 71 

 Monaul, 18 (Plate) 



