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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    F ood—continued. percentages in summer, table, 82 winter, nature of, 88 greater quantity required in winter, 34, 81, 92, 94 percentages in winter, table, 89 proportion of animal and vegetable, 101 ft' chemical constituents, 164 monthly dietary, 82-90, 96 f Food areas, overcrowding on, 90 Food plants, list and description of, 97- 101 Food supply heather-burning and, 349 relation of to migration, 95 Foreign species, introduction of, 69 Foster mothers, unsuccessful, 453 Fox, methods of destruction, 405 Fresh blood, introduction of, 32, 441 f unnecessary where birds migratory, 441 ff birds apt to wander, 443 risks of introducing, 445 Frost, effect of on eggs, 10 ff, 140 on pheasants’ eggs, 11 on nematode larvae, 236, 325 interrupting breeding, 281 result of observations, 12 Gamede aiders’ licences, 413 Gamekeepers, 387 f should be owner’s servants, 388 relations with agricultural tenants, 390 terms of service, 390 should not be paid in “ kind,” 390 married and unmarried, 391 number required, 391 Head, 391 Under, Single, 393 area under one man’s control, 391 f selection of, 392 essential qualifications, 392 personal qualities, 394, 402 f the “ ideal,” and the inefficient, 394 training of young, 394 importance of keenness in, 393 duties, 396 ff in “ off” season, 396 in nesting season, 396 f “ Stetchwortli ” system, 397 improving nesting ground, 398 drains and springs, 399 grit supply, 399 vermin killing, 399 Gamekeepers—continued. butt building, 400 “ bushing” fences, 400 bracken, destruction of, 400 estimating stock, 400 observing nests and broods, 396 f in shooting season, 400 if Grouse driving, 395 cocks, killing down, 401 Autumn heather-burning, 401 in Winter, 401 vermin tracking in snow, 402 in Spring, heather-burning, 402 Game-laws Commission, 346 “ Gapes ” in Grouse, 201 Gastro-uterine gestation, 149 Geological formations in Scotland, 318 no relation to “ Disease,” 318 Gizzard, 81, 165-6 Goniodes tetruonw(l>ird louse) on Grouse, 184 habits, 185 morphology, 185 eggs, 185 and skin disease, 150 Grazing rents and sheep rents, 347 f Gregarines in Grouse, 203 spores in alimentary canal, 203 Grit, 22, 107-112, 166 in Grouse chicks, 20, 108 size of, 107 f weight of, 108 quantity of, 107 geological constituents of, 108 quartz, always preferred, 108 f, 166 in partridge and pheasant, 107, 109 artificial introduction of, 110 during snowstorms, 112, 144 effect of grit-starvation, 110 control over loss of, 110 f berries as substitute for, 112 in blackgame, 111 functions of, 166 shot pellets as, 109 Grouse, history of name, 1 distribution, 1, 3 confined to Britain, 1, 3 acclimatisation, 1, 2 systematisation, 2-3 plumage, 3, 42 food, feeding habits, 22 pairing, 4 pugnacity, 5, 147 nesting habits, 6 if