Index 



Merganser, red-breasted, 57, 142, 185, 



188, 195, 197, 199, 213 

 Minch, the, 132, 149, 151, 159 



winter birds on, 168 et seq. 

 Morvern Hills, 43 



eagle in, 42 

 Mountain finch (twite), 50 

 "Mountain of the Mist," 4 

 Mull of Cantyre, 102 

 Mull, Island of, 21, 22, 25, 44, 52, 71, 

 108 



Ben More, 40, 46, 82, 84, 85 ct seq., 

 118, IK), 120, 161, 166 



blackcock on, 122 



Duart Point on, 23 



Gaelic name of, 82 



Glen More, 32 et seq. 



"Headland of the Caves" on, 100 



heronry on, 75 



kelp industry on, 175 



ptarmigan on, 38 



rainfall on, 39 



tame gull on, 208 

 Mull, Ross of, 88, 103, 139 et seq., 162 



immunity from adders in, 44, 47 



kelp industry on, 175 



"Pot-i " on, 158 

 Mull, Sound of, 23, 28, 38, 41, 42, 43, 

 83, 85, 105, 106, 141, 167 



blackcock on shore of, 124 



terns' nesting site in, 96 



Nightjar, 33, 54 



call of, 191 

 Norway, Kings of, buried on lona, 44 



Oban, 85, 140 

 Observatory, Ben Nevis, 5 

 Orkneys, kelp industry on, 175 

 Ouzel, ring, 5, 9, 35, 83, 199 



water, 35, 208 

 Owl, barn, 56, 187 

 Oyster catcher, 10, 13, 47, 55, 118, 120, 



173. 197. »99 

 love-song of, 133 

 nesting site of, 191, 193 



Pansv, wild, 42 



Parsley fern, 2, 87 

 Passage of Tiree, 108, 161 

 Peat bogs, 162 



Peregrine, 14, 38, 68, 104, 117, 141 

 160, 166, 172, 202, 203 

 and rock pigeons, 172 

 fiight of, 141, 142 

 nesting site of, 49, 190, 193 

 Petrel, fulmar, 201; flight of, 112 



storm, II, 51, 173 

 I'halarope, grey, 114, 201 



red-necked, 114; nesting of, 153 el 

 seq., 196 

 ripit, meadow, 5, 83, 103, 197 

 rock, 112 

 tree, 54, 194 

 Plover, and herons, 75 



golden, 85, 102, 149, 190, 198, 203, 

 213; love song of, 133; migra- 

 tion of, 163 

 green, 52, 166, 186, 215; call of, 54 



(see Lapwing) 

 grey, 212 



ringed, 166, 173, 185, 202, 203, 205; 

 nesting of, 133 et seq. 

 Port a' churaich, St. Columba's boat 



at, 45 

 I'tarmigan, 54, 71, 84, 85, 87, 133 

 et seq., 194, 207 

 and eagle, 62, 68 

 enemies of, 38, 39 

 life of, 38 et seq. 

 male call of, 39 

 origin of name of, 41 

 scarcity of, in West, 41 

 •' Ptarmigan of the waves " [see 



Plover, ringed) 

 Puffin, 119, 121, 140, 173, 188 

 Highland name of, 78 

 migration of, 11, 22 

 Puffins on P3rnisgeir, 78, 79 



"Queen of the Islands,'" 77 et seq. 



Rainfall at Fort William, 204 



on Mull, 39 

 " Raineach " (bracken), i6i 

 Rainstorms, salmon and, 55 



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