421 



Index. 



Rabbits, wild, 283-287 : 

 burrows, 284 

 damage caused, 285 

 gins, setting, in 'runs, 323, 



3 2 9 



habits, 283 



hares compared, 273, 275, 



284 



haunts, 283 

 litters, 283 

 natural history, 283 

 nets, 293 



safeguards against foxes, 392 

 snaring, 292 

 varieties, 284 

 Rats, 263, 349-363 



bacteria for exterminating, 



363 



Barn, 350 

 Black, 349 

 Brown, 349 

 destroying, 355 

 fecundity, 351 

 ferreting, 356 

 habits, 351 

 haunts, 350, 351 

 increase in numbers, 349 

 natural history, 349 

 size, 350 

 smell, acute sense of, 354, 



.357 



terriers for ratting, 356 



trapping, 340, 356, 357 



virus for exterminating, 363 



voracity, 350 

 Ravens, 369-371 : 



capturing, 371 



food, 370 



habits, 370, 371 



nest, 370 



voracity, 370 

 Red Grouse, 188-222 : 



ants' eggs, 204, 208 



breeding in captivity, 204 



breeding - place, choice of, 

 200 



broody hens, 205 



carrying-box for chicks, 207 



" cheepers," 195 



Red Grouse (cont.) \ 

 coops, 201 

 diseases, 211, 213 

 distribution, 189 

 drowning-out, 211 

 eggs, caution in obtaining, 



199 

 eggs, number of, in clutch, 



191 



enteritis, 213 



exposure, deaths from, 212 

 feeding, 201, 202, 203, 204 

 feeding-times, 192, 209 

 foods, 202, 208 

 foods, natural, 192 

 game-sick moors, 198, 199 

 ground-springes, 221 

 ground- vermin, 216 

 grouse disease, 211, 213 

 habits, 192, 218, 219 

 hand-rearing, 199, 203 

 hatching, 201 

 haunts, 189 

 heather, introducing chicks 



to, 207 

 hingling, 222 

 incubation, 201 

 introduction, 194, 215 

 keepers, 188 

 Klein, Dr., on grouse 



disease, 213 



Lago-pus scoticus, 188, 197 

 liberating new birds, 197 

 maintenance of stock, 194 

 mating, 191 

 monogamous, 191 

 moor, choice of, 194, 196 

 moor, establishment of, 194, 



197 



Moorcock, 190 

 natural history, 188 

 nest, 191 

 netting, 218 

 Nicholson, Mr. W. A., on 



hand-rearing, 203 

 obtaining birds, 197 

 poaching, 216 

 protection, 216 

 rearing, 199, 203 



