423 



Index. 



Stoats (cont.) : 



nest or lair, 300 



"running the posts," 331 



trapping, 312-348 



victims, 300, 301 



winter coat, 303 

 Stout, or stoat, 303 

 Sunstroke, 96 

 Syngamus tracJiealis^ 92 



Talisch's Pheasant, 14, 17 

 Tanks for coverts, 87, 88 

 Tapeworm, 102, 149, 212 

 Terriers for ratting, 357 

 Testing eggs, 48 

 Tetrao gallus, 140 



scotuus, 1 88 



tetrix, 223 

 Tetraonida t 193 

 Thinning-out coverts, 109 

 " Tilling," 316, 327. (See Trap- 

 ping-) 



Tragopan Pheasant, 18 

 Trails, false, for trapping, 321 

 Trapping, 312-389: 



cats, 342, 347 



deodorising hands, 358 



dogs, 346 



fish as bait, 321, 329 



ground vermin, 3, 294-368 



hawks, 388 



hedgehogs, 366 



jays, 383, 384 



magpies, 380 



polecats, 312 



rats, 340, 356, 357 



stoats, 312 



tfails, false, 321 



water-courses, 329 



weasels, 312 



wild cats, 342, 347 



winged vermin, 369-389 

 Traps, 312-389: 



American, 319, 358 



box, 341 



break-back, 340 



ca g e > 357> 360, 361 



chains, 314 



Clifford's, 360 



Traps (cont.) : 



colouring, 340 



dead-fall, 332, 341 



Dorset, 313, 358, 360, 380, 

 381 



drags or false trails, 321 



Everitt's, 320, 330, 360 



figure-of-four, 332 



for catching-up birds, 127 



Frost's, 362 



gins, 312, 344, 358 



High Elms, 336 



Hugger, 346 



Lane's, 319 



Musk-rat, 318, 319, 348 



pitfall, 367 



pole, 389 



stakes, 315 



steel, 312 



" tilling," 316, 327 

 Trees for coverts, 104, 107, 113 

 Trespassing, 397-409 

 Tring Park, pheasants at, 16 

 Typhus fever, 281 



Valerian as a lure for cats, 345 



Vent-binding, 101 



Vermin, 294-389. See Ground 

 Vermin and Winged 

 Vermin. 



definition of, 294 

 " running the posts," 331 

 trapping, 312-389 



Virus for exterminating rats, 363 



Vole, water, 350 



Warrens, hare, 276, 277 



rabbit, 283 

 Water - courses, trapping along, 



3 2 9 



Water-supply during frost, 88, 

 89, 261 



Water-vole, 350 



Weasels, 304-312 (Plate), 313 : 

 attacking humankind, 306 

 colour, 304 

 description, 304 

 egg-destroyers, 305, 309 

 eggs as bait, 328, 348 



