Index. 



420 



Pheasants (cont.) : 



traps for catching-up, 127 

 trees for coverts, 104, 105, 



107, 113 



troughs, 37, 66, 86 

 true, 14, 17 

 turning down, 20 

 undergrowth, 105 

 varieties, 5, 9, 12, 17, 18 

 vent-binding, 101 

 vermin, 115, 347 

 water-supply, 66, 85 

 whistling birds for feeding, 



83 



white, u, 131 



winged vermin, 115 



winter feeding, 77 



winter water-supply, 88 



wire-netting to protect food, 

 132 



worms, 92, 1 02 



Yarkand, 17 

 Pied pheasants, 131 

 Pigeons, food losses through, 

 132 



trap for, 129, 130 

 Pigeon Hawk, 386 

 Pitfall trap, 367 

 Planting coverts, 104, 107 

 Poachers and poaching, 397- 

 409: 



arrest, power of, 402, 405, 

 406 



capturing poachers, 402 



day, 405 



dogs, keepers' powers re- 

 garding, 404 



early supplies for the mar- 

 kets, 400 



"gentlemen" poachers, 400 



keepers' powers, 403 



law regarding, 4*53 



methods, 408 



name and address, demand- 

 ing, 405 



night, 405, 406 



police aid, 403, 407 



preventing, 397, 401 



professional poachers, 400 



Poachers, &c. (cont.) : 



raids, anticipating, 402 



search, right of, 403 



sporting poachers, 400 



town poachers, 400 



typical poachers, 398 



working in gangs, 400 

 Pole trap, 389 

 Polecats, 294-299 (Plate), 312 



courage as fighters, 298 



crossing with ferrets, 298 



description, 296 



fitch or fitchet, 297 



foetid smell, 295 



foul marten, 297 



foumart, 297 



fulimart, 297 



habits, 295, 297, 321 



haunts, 297 



identifying depredations, 

 297 



names, 297 



nest and young, 296 



" running the posts," 331 



taming, 298 



trapping, 312-348 



victims, 295 

 Poisons, risk attending use of, 



346 



Police aid, 403, 407 

 Prince of Wales' Pheasant, 15 



(Plate) 



Progress of game-preserving, 2 

 Ptarmigan, 233 



haunts, 234 

 Purchasing eggs, 122 

 Puttock, 387 



Quails, 237 



Chinese, 237 (Plate) 



Crested, 237 (Plate) 



eggs, number of in clutch, 

 239 



food, 239 



habits, 238 



nest, 239 



wildness, 238 



Qualifications of gamekeepers, 3, 

 401 



