Index. 



422 



Red Grouse (cont.) 



setting eggs, 201, 205 



snaring, 221 



soil, choice of, 194, 214 



springes, 221 



standing springes, 221 



stand-nets, 218, 221 



Suffolk, introduction in, 190 



surroundings of moor, 196 



sweep-nets, 219 



Tetrao scoticus, 188 



tubercular disease, 213 



turning down, 197, 202 



vermin, 214, 216 



water, 209 



wet seasons, 195 



wildness, 188, 189 



winged vermin, 217 



winter-feeding, 192 

 Red - legged Partridge, 134, 140 



(Plate) 



" Red-legs," 140 

 Red Worm,' 92 



Reeves' Pheasant, 12 (Plate) 

 Reeves' Ring-necked Pheasant, 



Plate 



Resinous trees in coverts, 108 

 Resplendent Pheasant, Plate 

 Rewards for discovery of nests, 



123 



Rides in coverts, 108, in 

 Ridging for wire-netting, 396 

 Rights, keepers', 403 

 Ringed Pheasant, 17 

 Ring - necked Pheasant, 5, 10 



(Plate) 



Roasting - jacks for lantern- 

 scares, 394, 395 

 Rooks, 375-377 = 



distinguishing, from crows, 



* ^ 372 ^ 375 

 food, 376 



habits, 375 



Rothschild, Hon. W., on par- 

 tridges, 140 



on pheasants, 16 

 Round Worm, 92 

 Roup, 99, 147, 149, 211 

 Royston Crow, 375 



Sanctuaries, partridge, 168 



Sand Partridges, 140 



Scour, 100 



Scrofula, 101 



Scurfy legs, 101 



Search, right of, 403 



Selling game, 290 



" Sentinels of the woods," 379 



Setting traps. See Traps. 



Sheepdogs as poachers, 217 



Shelter-huts for pheasants, 79 



Shooting-rides or drives, 108, in 



Shooting, tenants' keepers' 



powers of, 406 



Shrubs for coverts, 104, 107, 118 

 Siberian Pheasant, 14, 17 

 Silkie hens as brooders, 42 

 Silver Pheasant, 18, '19 (Plate) 



Wyandottes as brooders, 42 

 Snaring cats, 347 



hares, 280 



partridges, 180, 181 



pheasants, 124 



rabbits, 292 



Red Grouse, 221. 

 Snipe, 240 



Snow Partridges, 140 

 Soemmerring's Pheasant, 18 



(Plate) 



Sparrowhawk, 385 

 Spices in pheasant foods, 133 

 Sprats as bait, 321 

 Spratt's Crissel, 145 



Game Meal, 208 

 Spring guns, 290 

 Springeing pheasants, 124 



Red Grouse, 221 

 Stakes for traps, 315 

 Stat or stoat, 303 

 Steel traps, 312 

 Stockdoves, food losses through, 



132 

 Stoats, 299-304 (Plate), 312 : 



change of coat, 303 



colour, 303 



egg-destroyers, 300 



habits, 299, 301, 321 



haunts, 301 



names, 303 



