The grouse in health and in disease : being the popular edition of the report of the committee of inquiry on grouse disease / edited by A.S. Leslie ; assited by A.E. Shipley.

  • Great Britain. Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease.
Date:
1912
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    “ Disease,” 113 ff (see also Strongy- losis) history of, 151 ff early records, 151 f former writers on, 152 distribution of (maps), 305 ff no district free from, 319 no periodicity of recurrence, 329 “years,” 152, 305 ff summary of problems, 160 of conclusions, 161 relation to corn-feeding, 145 William Colquhoun’s pamphlet, 146 John Colquhoun (“Moor and loch ”), 139 “ Klein’s Disease,” 153 ff, 330 not met with in Inquiry, 156, 161, 184 Cobbold’s theory, 153 ff other views, 154 ff 328 Tom Speedy, 156 Committee’s provisional view, 154 ff „ final view, 161 not due to tapeworms, 157 not due to Bacillus coli, 158, 217 ff, 221 not due to “preservation,” 152, 403 not connected with geological forma- tion, 318 due to Strongyle worms in cseca, 201, 209, 220 pathology, 206 ff effects of on sexes, 179, 242 power of resistance to, 241, 326 always causes wasting, 157, 217 relation to weight, 157, 162, 217, 244, 327 undersized and late birds, 241 no autumn outbreaks, 180, 238 relation to wet moors, 368 relation to rainfall, 319 rapid recovery from, 442 ff sicklv birds in autumn convalescent, 46^ 180 Diseases, minor, of Grouse, 116 ff of skin, 150 Distribution of Grouse, 1, 3 Draining, 368 advantages of, 369 methods recommended, 369 by gamekeepers, 339 to discourage heather beetle, 379 Driving, see Grouse-driving Droppings, hard, 171, 325 soft, 171, 190, 325 “docker,” 14, 172, 190 Drought, 299 ff favours Coccidiosis, 266, 299 unfavourable to Trichostrongylus, 225, 237 Dung-fly, 188 as carrier of coccidian spores, 258 not intermediate hostofcestodes, 188 in Grouse droppings, 190 Duodenum, 166-7 habitat of small tapeworm, 167, 173, 199 effect of parasites on, 174 Eagle, 22, 410 Ectoparasites, 182, 184 relation to endoparasites, 184 Eggs, number of, 7 depends on healthiness of stock, 285 colour of, 8 intervals in laying, 7 size and colour, 8 f effect of weather on, 9 of snow, 9 f of frost, 10 ff of wet, 9 f of disease on, 286 hatching of, 148 Egg stealing, 414 Egg changing, 445 Eimeria avium, see Coccidium avium Endoparasites, 192 relation to ectoparasites, 182 Euston, or “ Stetchworth ” system, 397 Feeding, hours of, 22, 81, 171 during incubation, 172 Feet, accidental injury to, 134 Fences, danger from wire, 23, 119 “bushing” of, 23 Fencing of burnt areas from sheep, 355 Fighting, mortality from, 147 Filaria smithi, 202 Fires, accidental, 353 Flagellata, 207 Fleas on Grouse. See Ceratophyllus Flies on Grouse, 188 Flight, powers of, 30 f Flooding, 17 f Food, 79 ff heather nearly all-important, 81 f but not indispensable, 81 various, 97 ff heather seed, 87 ff berries, 81 ff insects, 20, 90, 101-104, 194 corn, 29