Index 



Stags, fights between, 6i 



hand-fed, 36 

 Stalker, Highland, 59 et seq. 

 Starling, 203 

 Stonechat, 55, 58, 83, 199 



one of "The Seven Sleepers," 163 

 Stornoway, 168, 173 

 Sulair (see Solan goose), 47, 140 

 Summer Islands, 173 

 Swcillows, 94, 188 

 Swan, Bewick, 125 ei seq. 



whooper, 129 et seq. 

 Swans, wild, 121 



flight of, 163 



tribe of, 125 et seq. 

 Swift, 94 



Tangle-ash, uses of, 177, 179 

 " Tangles," 140, 175 et seq., 187 

 Tar mac h, Gaelic name Ptarmigan, 41, 



52 

 "Tarmachan" (jif^ Ptarmigan) 

 " Tarmachan na Teinne," 133 

 Tern, 42, 112, 118, 159, 194, 195, 205 



migration of, 98, 99 



nesting site of, 191 



varieties of, 94 

 Tern, Arctic, 94, 95, 96, 97, 196, 197 



common, 94, 95, 188 



lesser, 94, 95, 197 



roseate, 94 



sandwich, 94 

 Thrush, missel, 53, 187, 199 



song, 166, 187 

 Tides in Hebrides, 136 

 Tiree, Island of, 23, 50, 95, 115, 118, 

 143, 158 et seq. 



Gott Bay, 105, 107 



kelp industry on, 175, 178, 179, 180, 

 181 



lighthouse on, 86 



mailboat to, 105 et seq. 



sands of, 168 



Tobermory, mailboat from, 22, 105, 



108, 164 

 Torran rocks, in, 139, 143 

 Traigh Bhagh sands, 159 

 Traigh Bheidhe sands, 159 

 "Traigh Gheal," 139 

 Traigh Mhor sands, 159 

 Treshnish, Islands of, 44, 104, 107, 



120, lai 

 Trout, introduction to Lochan Uaine 



of, 69, 91 

 sea, 34, 52, S3, 55, 56, 159 

 Turnstone, 13, 159, 171, 185, 203, 210- 



211 

 Turtle dove, 203 

 Twite, 148, 203 



nesting site of, 50 



UlSGEAN, Ross of Mull, 139, 140 

 Uist, loi 



kelp industry on, 176, 177 

 Ulva, Island of, 44, 108, 115 



kelp industry on, 174, 181 



Sound of, 89, 115, 121 



Violet, 42, 195 



Wagtail, 71 



white, migration of, 163, 189 

 Wheatear, 8, 42, 61, 83, 94, 102, 188, 

 203 



one of " The Seven Sleepers," 163 

 Whimbrel, 97, 119, 188 



call of, 189 



migration of, 134, 163, 189 

 Whinchat, 55, 83, i88, 194 

 Widgeon, 121, 203 

 Willow warbler, 7, 54, 188, 199 

 Wind, Tiree folklore of, 164-5 

 Witches, legend of, 160 

 Wood warbler, 56, 195 

 Woodcock, 118, 187, 199 

 Wren, 8 



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