Index 



Chough, red-billed, 47 



Clais an-t-sabhail, corrie of, 3 



"Cleg," 141 



"Cock's Nest," 134 



"Coilleach dubh " (blackcock), 122 



Coll, cairns of, 24 



Coll, Island of, 21, 95, 101, 118, 140, 



herons on, 75 



kelp industry on, 175 



mail boat to, 105 et seq. 

 Colonsay, Isle of, 91, 144 



lighthouse on, 86 

 Coolin Hills, 2, 163 

 Conger eels, 116 

 Cormorant, 23, 35, 53, 116, 121, 173 



green, 14, 77, 80, 120, 160, 212 

 Corncrake, 120, 166, 190 

 Craignish, kelp burning at, 181 

 Craignish Point, 162 

 Craignure, 106 

 "Creith leag," 141 

 Crianlarich, 85 



Crotal, brown dye from, loi, 144 

 Crow, grey, 38, 39, 47, 61, 190, 197, 

 201, 206 



nesting site of, 47 

 Cruisgean, 167 

 Cuckoo, 54, 163 



Curlew, 26, 35, 42, 'i,i, 71, 83, 85, 119, 

 164, 166, 170, 171, 185, 187, 190, 

 19I5 193. 197. 198, 202, 214 



call of, 35, 54, 102, 189, 195 



lesser, 119 {see Whimbrel) 

 Cushion pink, 4, 42, 84, 195 



Deee, 68, 83, 84, 87, 207. 

 hand-fed, 36 

 on Island of Mull, 33 



Denmark, Kings of, buried in lona, 44 



Dipper, 83, 186, 195, 208 

 {see Ouzel, water) 



Diver, black-throated, 171 



great northern, 121, 171, 213 

 red-throated, 25, 207, 211, 212 

 red-throated, haunt of, 90 */ seq., 



Duart Point, 23, 42 



Dubh Hirteach, 153, 161 



lighthouse, 86, in et seq. 

 Duck, eider, 188, 194, 199 



long-tailed, 168-69, 173, 212, 214 



scaup, 173 



scoter, 214 

 Dun da Ghaoithe, Mull, 38, 82, 167 

 Dunara Castle, 49 



Dunlin, 97, 114, 154, 156, 159, 164, 

 166, 170, 171, 185, 189-90, 194, 

 196, 198, 202, 203 

 Dunvegan, 130 

 Dunvegan Head, Skye, 109 

 Dyes made by Mull people, loi 



" Each lisge," legend of, 145 



Eagle, 42, 43, 60, 62, 67, 68, 71, 83 

 and ptarmigan, 62, 68 

 flight of, 94, 146, 148 

 Gaelic name for, 60, 61 

 golden, 21, 38, 55, 62, 91, 195 

 nesting site of, 6 et seq., 32 

 sea (white-tailed eagle), 21, 104 



Eaglet, plumage of, 8 

 flight of, 62 



Eigg, Island of, 2, 23 



Eilean a Chleirich, 173 



Eilean aon Reithe, 49 



Eilean GLas, lighthouse on, 43 



Eilean nam Ban, 47 



Elder, black dye from, 101 



Eorsa, Isle of, 118 



Erne (white-tailed or sea eagle), 21 



Ernisgeir, Isle of, 77 

 puffins and, 78, 79 



Erraid, Isle of, 139 



" Eun Sith " (cuckoo), 163 



Ewe, Isle of, 151 



" Ewen of the Little Head," legend 

 of, 167 



"Fairy Bird, the" (cuckoo), 163 

 Fairies, charms against, 57 



of Skye, 144 



of Tiree, 167 



on Ceann a' Bharra, 161 



on "Headland of the Caves," 103 



on Ross of Mull, 144 



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