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

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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$former Tables, and confirm the view that the figures given in Table II. for July and November 1906 were abnormal, and prob- ably due to exceptional circumstances. The total number of specimens examined for the purpose of drawing up Table IV. was four hundred and thirty-six, including the two hundred and eighty-seven already included in Tables II. and III. ; but in 1907 the specimens were not quite so well distributed as in the earlier period. TABLE IV.—Comparison of Monthly Averages of Crop Contents covering Two Years. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. July. Aug. Sept. Oct Nov. Dec. Galluiia heatherl shoots . . j 1906 1907 64 89 75* 72 97 81 93 64 81* 100' 82 100 53 95 60i 38 63* 63 42 51 39 70* 54 59} Av. 76 \ 73| 89 78* 90| 91 74 49f 63* 46* 54f 561 Calluna heather j flower and seed--! 1906 1907 201 10 H 9 2J 2 0 0 * o' 0 0 0 0 5* 14' 16} 21 28 24 33 19* 23 27 heads . . 1 Av. 15* 5f n 0 i 0 0 9| 18f 26 26f 25 Blaeberry stalk, bud and leaf. 1906 1907 1 15 19 0 15 4 21 6 0 6 0 20 0 0 12 4* 0 9 1 22 10 21 10 Av. 17 7* 12* 3 3 10 6 2] 5 16 15* Various . . -1 1906 1907 2* i 7 0 o t 2 3 15 12 0 12 0 27 5 34 36 11 16 21 24 6 0 2 1 Av. H 3* n 9 6 6 16 35 13* m 3 2§ More food required in winter than in summer. The results of this Table have also been given in the form of a chart for purposes of comparison.1 The strain upon the vitality of the Grouse in the winter months is intensified by the fact that a greater bulk of food is required by each bird per day than is required during the summer. 1 Vide p. 93.$