Index 
139 
Grouse, Red (continued). 
Remarkable bag in early days of muzzle-loader, 44 
Restriction of numbers of old cocks, 57 
Speed of flight, 55 
Statistics of shooting in Wales, 46 
Unsuccessful introduction to Shetland, 47 
Varieties, 60 
Vermin prey on, 60 
Water essential to, 50 
Young, 43 
Hagenbeck, Carl, introduces Mongolian Pheasant to Great 
Britain, 102 
Harcourt, Sir W., attacked by cock CapercailHe, 16 
Harvie-Brown, J, A., on : 
Females assuming male plumage, 17 
Limitation of Capercaillie, 7 
Past history of the Capercaillie, 3 
Suitable ground for Capercaillie, 6 
Willow Grouse, 62 
Hector Boetius first mentions Capercaillie, 3 
Henderson, Neville, on Capercaillie at the "lek," 11 
Hicks, Mr., on suitability for sport of Mongolian Pheasant, 103 
Hume's Pheasant, 73 
Ijima's Pheasant, 76 
Impeyan Pheasants, 15 
Jones, J. : 
On fight between Red-legged and Grey Partridges, 128 
Possesses hen Pheasant with spurs, 97 ». 
Keay, James, on fights between Capercaillie, 10 
Klein, Professor, on "cramps," 93 
Leslv, Bishop, on Capercaillie in sixteenth century, 4 
Liechtenstein, Prince Henry, nesting anecdote by, 13 
Lilford, Lord, on cross between Reeves's Pheasant and Com- 
mon Pheasant, 110 
Lindsey, Robert, on Capercaillie in time of James V., 4 
Lloyd on Capercaillie in Norway and Sweden, 6 n. 
Longfield on Capercaillie, 3 
Lopes, Fernandez, introduces Chinese Pheasant to St. Helena, 
100 
Mackenzie, Austin, describes an abnormal Grouse, 60 
Macpherson, Rev. H, A., on Partridges crossing water, 1 15 
Malloch, Mr., shoots cream-coloured female Capercaillie, 17 
Marshman on luring Quail by call, 133, 134 
Masefield, John R. B., paper on rufous variety of Common 
Partridge, 124 n. 
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, records two Capercaillie shot in 1S74, 4 
Meade-King, W. O., account of tame cock Pheasant, S9, 90 
Mediterranean countries, wholesale netting of Quail in, 133 
Meves, Herr Dr., on contents of crops of Capercaillie, 15 
Micklefield, A. R., anecdote regarding Pheasants, 89 
Milbank, Sir Frederick, on remarkable bags on Wemmergill 
Moors, 44 
Montagu, Capercaillie extinct in British dominions, 4 
Murdoch, G. W., on Pheasant-barndoor crosses, 98 
Naumann on Pheasants' diet on Continent, 80, 81 
Newton, Professor, on remains of Capercaillie in caves, 2 
Nix, Charles, on Chinese Pheasant, 100 
Ovary, disease of, in Common Pheasant, 96, 97 
Padwick, Henry, references to Pheasant in Latin writers, 78 
Partridge, Common (Perdix perdix, Linnasus), in seqq. 
Birds reared by foster-mothers are wild, 121 
Call, 116 
Causes of decrease, 113, 114 
Courtship, 1 16 
Diet, 113, 116 
Diseases : 
" Gapes," 121 
Hematode worms, 121, 122 
Distribution, 112 
Easily tamed, 120 
Eggs, 118 
Enemies of young, 120 
Enormous numbers killed in England, 123 
Extract from Daily Telegraph on method of increasing 
stock, 122, 123 
Favourite haunts, 115 
Fine specimens of rufous variety in Newcastle Museum, 
124 
Flight, 120 
Furred and feathered enemies, 121 
Good results from penning system, 122 
Good swimmers, 120 
Gregarious, 115 
Habits, 112, 113 
Heavy rain fatal to young, 120 
Hens fighting, n6 
Hybrids, 125 
Immatures, 112 
Importation of Hungarians, 122 
Incubation, 118 
In England most unmigratory of game birds, 115 
Large bags, 124 
Large numbers killed by stoats and weasels, 121 
Local names, in 
Male foster-parents, 123 
Males fighting, 116, 117 
Methods of increasing stock, 122 
Monogamous, 115 
Moorland, best for table, 115 
