INDEX 



Aberdeenshire, ptarmigan in, 41 



Achnasheen, rainfall at, 204 



Adder, St. Columba and, 44 



Ailsa Craig, 48 



Alder, black dye from, loi 



Allosurus crisfus, 2 



Allt a' Mhuilinn, Corrie of, 4 



An Teallach, 130 



Applecross Hills, 109 



Ardnaraurchan, 21 et seq., 106, 108, 164 



lighthouse on, 23, 86 

 Argyll, Duke of, and kelp industry, 



179 

 Aurora, 105 

 Awe, River, 86 



Ballephuill, 161 

 "Ban-sith," legend of, 145 

 Barnacle goose, 10, 17 



legend of, 12-13 

 " Barr dearg," 48, 180 

 Barra Head, 21, loi, no 



lighthouse on, 86 

 Beinn a' Ghlo ("Mountain of the 



Mist "), 4 

 Beinn an Aonidh, 141 

 Beinn Buie, Mull, 82, 167 

 Beinn Fada, 166 

 Beinn Hough, 162 

 Beinn Talaidh, 167 

 Ben Airidh Char, 151, 172 

 Ben Alder, 4 



Ben Cruachan, 4, 34, 40, 42, 85 

 Ben Hynish, 161 

 Ben More (Crianlarich), 85 

 Ben More, Mull, 40, 46, 82 et seq., 107, 

 108, no, 118, 119, 120, 139, 161, 

 166 



ptarmigan on, 85 



snowfields on, 120 



temperature on, 84 



Ben Muich Dhui, i, 3 



Ben Nevis, i et seq., 43, 82, 85, 1O5 



snowfields on, 4, 43, 85, 193 



temperature on, 84 

 Bidean nam Bian, snowfield on, 5 

 Black Mount, Forest of, 43 

 Blackbird, 187, 206 



mountain (Ouzel, ring), 8 

 Blackcock, fighting of, 122 et seq., 187, 



i88 

 Bladder-wrack, 181 

 Bog myrtle, 55, 90 



yellow dye from, 101 

 Borreray, 166 

 Braeriach, 3 

 Bunessan, 143, 164 

 Bunting, corn, 206 

 Bunting, snow, 5, 63, 68, 85 

 Buzzard, 10, 13, 21, 32-33, 84, 91, loi, 

 102, 104, 117, 141, 146 et seq., 

 199, 200, 202, 204 



flight of, 33 



nesting site of, 147 



young of, 148 



Cairn Tool, 3, 65 



Cairngorm Hills, 2, 3, 4, 65, 82, 159 



cushion pink on, 84 



ptarmigan on, 38, 39, 40 



temperature of, 84 

 Cairns of Coll lighthouse, 86 

 Calgary, 108 

 Calliach Point, 109, 121 

 " Calm of the Birds," 140 

 Canna, Island of, 23 

 Cape Wrath, 98, 152 

 Carex, 4 

 Carraigean, 143 

 Carsaig, 140 



Cat, wild, on Ardnamurchan, 21 

 Ceann a' Bharra, 159, 167 et seq. 



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