Index 



424 



Weasels fcont.j : 



ermine, 303 



foetid smell, 311 



habits, 305, 307, 321 



haunts, 308 



names, 311 



nest, 307 



packs, 306 



trapping, 312-348 

 Wheat, 74 



Whistling birds for feeding, 83 

 White pheasants, 131 

 White-throated fitchet, 311 

 Wild cats, trapping, 342, 347 

 Wild duck, 242-267 : 



coops, 249, 251 



crossed birds, 246 



custard food, 250 



difficulties in retaining, 242, 



2 43> 2 57 

 diseases, 267 

 ducklings, 248, 253, 254 

 eggs, number of, laid, 245 

 eggs, obtaining, 246 

 feeding, 245, 249, ^256, 258 

 fish, predatory, 255 

 flapper-shooting, 262 

 foods, 249, 256, 259 

 foods, natural, 260 

 foxes, 266 



grain foods, 256, 259 

 habits, 257, 258, 260 

 hatching, 246 

 haunts, 258, 260 

 ice, clearing, 261 

 incubation, 247 

 introduction, 242, 245 

 ladder, 262 



localities, suitable, 242, 243 

 maintenance, 242 

 maize, 256 

 pinioned birds as decoys, 



260, 261 



protection, 262, 263 

 rats, 263 

 rearing-field, 248 

 runs, 249, 251 



Wild duck (cont.) : 



shelters, 261 



shooting, 262 



turning down, 245 



vermin, 262 



water, 248, 253, 254 



weaklings, 252 



winter treatment, 261 

 Wild rabbits, 283-287. (See 



Rabbits.) 

 Winged vermin, 369-389 



Brown Owl, 388 



Buzzard, Moor, 387 



Carrion Crow, 372 



Corvidce, 375 



crows, 372 



Grey or Grey-backed Crow, 



Harriers, 387 



hawks, 214, 217, 384-389 



Hen Harrier, 387 



Hooded Crow, 375 



jackdaws, 377 



jays, 377 



Kentish Crow, 375 



Kestrel Hawk, 386 



Long-eared Owl, 388 



magpies, 377 



Marsh Harrier, 387 



Marsh Hawk, 387 



Moor Buzzard, 387 



owls, 384, 388 



Pigeon Hawk, 386 



Puttock, 387 



ravens, 369 



rooks, 375 



Royston Crow, 375 



Sparrowhawk, 385 



trapping, 369-389 

 Wire-cage traps, 357, 360, 361 

 Woodcock, 240 

 Wood-pigeons, 129, 130, 132 

 Worms, 92, 102, 149, 212 

 Wounded game, picking up, 404 

 Wyandottes as brooders, 42 



Yarkand Pheasant, 17 



LONDON AND COUNTY PRINTING WORKS, BAZAAR BUILDINGS, LONDON, W.C. 



