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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



An Elementary Text-Book of Botany. By Dr Prantl and Dr Vines. 



The Geological Antiquity of Insects. By H. Goss. 



The Insect Fauna of the Primary Period. By H. Goss. 



The Mammalia of Scotland. By E. R. Alston, F.L.S. 



Report of Glasgow Industrial Museum. 



Early Chapters in the History of the Squirrel in Britain. By J. A. Harvie 



Brown. 

 Notice of a Crannog at Lochlee, Ayrshire. By Dr Munro. 

 European Butterflies and Moths. By W. F, Kirby. 

 Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



This Day is Published. 

 Fifth Edition, Revised throughout and Greatly Enlarged. 



THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. 



containing 



MINUTE INSTRUCTIONS IN ALL HIGHLAND SPORTS. 



With Wanderings over Crag and Corrie, Flood and Fell. 



TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED 



RECOLLECTIONS OF THE AUTHOR'S EARLY LIFE. 



By JOHN COLQUHOUN. 



Fifth Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged. 

 Two Vols, post 8vo. With Two Portraits, and other Illustrations. Price 26s. 



CONTENTS. 



Vol. I. "Sport" — Deer-Stalking — Deer-Driving in Mull — Wild-Goats — Roe-Hunting 

 — Seal-Shooting — Capercailzie-Shooting — Grouse and Black-Game Shooting — Ptarmigan- 

 Shooting — The Alpine or White Hare— Woodcocks and Snipes — Sea-Fowl Shooting in 

 the Firth of Forth — Wild-Fowl Shooting on the Highland Lochs — The Peat Isle — Dogs 

 for the Gun— Instinct of Dogs — Natural History and Sport of Bute — Appendix. 



Vol. II. Corrach-Bah ; or. A Plea for the Wastes— Hawking — On Eagles— The Kite- 

 Owls— The Mountain-Fox— The Wild-Cat— The Marten— The Otter— Wild Pigeons— The 

 Common Dotterel — Rock and River Ousels — A Spring Week in the West Highlands — The 

 Hill Poacher — The Natural History of Sport — My Museum — Salmon-Angling — Autumn 

 Angling on the Lyon — October on the Stinchar — Loch Salmon-Fishing— Trolling for the 

 Salmo-Ferox — River-Trouting— The Moor-Burn — Loch-Fishing — Fishing on Salt-Water 

 Lochs — A Raid on Sutherland — The Sound of Mull — Fragments. 



WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, Edinburgh and London. 



