Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Lost animals: early eliminations by Man; 2. The social background to persecution; 3. To kill a Rat or catch a Kite: methods of control; 4. Killing in Scotland; 5. In on the Act
  • searching the record; 6. Birds
  • individual species accounts; 7. Mammals
  • individual species accounts; 8. Local patterns of persecution: England and Wales; 9. The return of the natives; 10. Modern control
  • legal and illegal; 11. Vermin control and wildlife management: where next?; Appendix 1: Summary table of vermin payments extracted from churchwardens' accounts.