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Partridge, Common (continued). 
Nest, 11S 
Nesting-places, 114, 117 
Nests robbed by rooks, 112 
Numbers die from inflammation of lungs, 113 n. 
Parental affection, 119 
Plumage of adult female, in, nz 
Plumage of adult male, in 
Poachers' methods, 121 
Rearing in Hungary, 124 
Remarkable specimens, 125 
Resent the marriage-maker, 122 
Sharing of nest, 119 
Shooting at Holkham, 123 
Suitable ground, 114, 115 
Tendency towards melanism, 125 
Time for shooting, 122 
Variations, 124, 125 
Watchfulness against danger, 119 
Partridge, Common Red-legged (Caccabis ru/a, Linnaeus), 126 
seqq. 
Call, 128 
Diet, 129 
Distribution, 126, 127 
Eggs, 129 
Favourite haunts, 127,128 
Fighting, 128 
Habits, 127 
Incubation, 129 
Local names, 126 
Nest, 129 
Pairing-time, 128 
Plumage of adult female, 126 
Plumage of adult male, 126 
Pure white variety rare, 129 
Partridges, Red-legged, 126 
Description, 126 
Plumage, 126 
Pennant on the " Cock of the Wood," 3 
Pheasant, Chinese (Phasianus colchicus torquatus, Gmelin), 99, 
100 
Crosses, 100 
Description, 99 
Distribution, 100 
Plumage, 99 
Pheasant, Common (Phasianus colchicus, Linnaeus), 76 seqq. 
Accidents in flight, 84 
Amorous note of cock, 83 
Artificial nests, 87 
Barren females, 96 
Benefit to farmers, 81 
Can seldom be domesticated, 79 
Careless habits of a hen, 87, 88 
Cock will answer any noise, 85 
Courtship, 86 
Curious behaviour of cock, 86 
Curious habit of hen, 89 
Pheasant, Common (continued). 
Damage to crops by, 81 
Date of introduction into Ireland unknown, 79 
Diet, 80, 81 
Diseases: 
" Cramps," 93 
Fowl enteritis, 93 
"Gapes," 93 
Pneumonia, 94 
" Scurfy legs," 94 
Dislike to draughts, 80 
Distribution, 77 
Earliest record of, in Britain, 78 
Eggs, 87 
Enemies of, 91, 92, 93 
English writers' references to, 79 
Female said to assume male plumage, 96 
Female's three calls, 84 
Fighting, 86, 87 
Flight, 84 
Habits, 79 
Hen frequently kills young, 88, 89 
Hybrids, 97, 98, 99 
In bills of fare of Saxon kings, 78 
Incubation, 87 
Interbreeds most readily with game bantam, 97 
Local names, 76 
Makes use of other nests, 88 
Male's call, 85 
Many rabbits in cover undesirable, 80 
Mention in old Scotch Acts, 79 
Mixture of hen-cock and white plumage, 97 
Nest, 87, 88 
Numbers, 90 
Ovary, disease of, 96, 97 
Perfect Pheasant cover, 80 
Plumage of adult female, 77 
Plumage of adult male, 76, 77 
Plumage of Bohemian Pheasant, 97 
Poachers' devices, 90, 91 
Rearing of, in America, 77, 78 
"Spurred" females, 97 
Suitable soil, 90 
Suitable temperature for eggs, 88 
Take to water, 85 
Variation in, 97 
Vipers as article of diet, 81 
White cocks, 97 
Pheasant, Hagenbeck's (Phasianus colchicus hagenbecki, Roths- 
child), 101 
Description, 101 
Imported to London market, 101 
Plumage, 101 
Pheasant, Japanese (Phasianus colchicus versicolor^ Vieillon), 
106, 107 
Breeding, 107 
Call, 107 
