INDEX. 



Accident, Curious, to a Moorlien, 22S 



Laugliable, 66 



Remarkable, to a Chaffinch, 184 



Whilst Swiniiiiing to a Rock to Photo- 



giai'li CiiniKirants, 350 

 Accidents, ('limbing, 124 



Minor, 356 



to Young Rabbits, ISO 



Adder, Photograpliing an, 140 

 Adventure, Tale of, 134 

 Ailsa Craig, Puffins on, 268 



,, Very Badv Morning Visit to, 322- 



326 

 Alarm, False, 38 

 Animals, Differences in, 238 



• Wild, Phott.graiiliiiig, 3r,4 



Ankle, Dcvelopmnit of Clitl-climber's, 44 

 Apartment, old Maid's, at .St. Kilda, 34 

 Apparatus, Our Photographic, 334 

 Architecture of Birds' Nests, 183 



Bagpipes. Effect of, on St. Kildans, 37 

 Bass Rock, How to reach, 265 

 Bear<ls of St. Kilda Men, 32 

 Becking for Grouse, 160, 163 

 Bees never seen at St. Kilda, 128 

 Bell on the Xeck of a Goose, 156 

 Bible, Grace Darling's, 332 

 Biorrach, 124 



Bird-catcher, Immortalising a, 281 

 r -catchers' Call-Birds, 278 



,, Care for their Birds, 282 



,, How they Work, 278 



,, Lure Birds, 280 



,, Plant, 282 



— -catching an Inherited Instinct, 204 



,, Places, Favourite, rounil 



Brighton, 286 



Change of Habits in, 292 



Island, A Famous, 313 



Life in the Firth of Lome, 321 



Lime, Species caught by, 288 



Male, Feeding Young, alone, 230 



Mistaking Rising of Moon for Sun, 246 



Birds and Spare Xests, 186 



Call-Notes of, 281 



Caught on Nests, 198 



Difficulties of Photographing at Night- 

 time, 247 



Different Species sharing Nest, 194 



Eggs and Young, Protection of, 207 



„ Enemies of, 207 



,, Exchanging, 207 



,, How Laid, 205 



,, Show of, in Windows at St. Kilda, 12 



,, Sharing, at St. Kilda, 53 



Experimenting with, on Wire Perches, 232 



Extravagance of, 192 



Feeding their Young, 214, 216, 229 



Frightened of a Camera, 354 



Great Flights of, 284 



,, Numbers of, at Boriera, 75-76 



Helping them to build their Nests, etc , 



216 



Birds, How prevented from falling off Perch 

 when asleep, 231 



,, the Presence of Brooding Game, 



may be known, 198 

 ,, they are called, 278 



„ they keep warm whilst sleeping, 



232 



,, they sit on their Nests, 198 



Love of an old Breeding Haunt, 138 



Male, that feed their Mates, 202 



Migration of, 289 



Nests, Eggs, and Young of, 183 



■ ,, near London, 222 



,, Photographing in High Hedges, 



352 



Nets used for catching, 276 



Not so particular as supposed about 



Nests and Eggs, 206 



of Prey, Gamekeepers on killing, 142 



on Brighton Downs, 274 



Photographing in the Snow, 355 



Predominating Sex in, 241 



Protection of Young, bv Harmonisation, 



210 



Sanitary Arrangements of, 218 



Seen at St. Kilda, 57 



Singing at Night, 246 



Sleeping habits of, 233-235, 245, 246 



• „ together, 239 



Stealing each others' Nests, 189 



Trapping, 290 



Unwearying Devotion of, 196 



Vast Multitude of, 122 



Watching Shy, 212 



When they retire to sleep, 245 



Where they go to die, 234 



,, ,, sleep, 231 



Wings on Midden Heaps, 12 



Young, killed by Rooks, 146 



Blackbird, Curious Eggs of a, 205 

 Blackbirds feeding their Young, 213 



Nests well and badly hidden, 188 



■ Peculiar Positions of Nests of, 



264 



Where they sleep, 234 



Boat, Curious Old Method of lauding from 

 123 



Dangerous leap into, 121 



Difficulties of hiring a, 320 



Hauling, Curious Custom of, 43 



Keels wearing Grooves in Rocks, 44 



Race, St. Kilda as a Prize for, 16 



Boats lowered, 131 



• Photiigiaphiiig from, 350 



Bonnet, Highland Woman's, 321 



Boots, How a lligldand Woman wears her, 



321 

 Borrera, Difficulties of landing on, 76, 77 



Excursion to, 75 



Scaling the Cliffs of, 78 



Sheep killed on, 87 



Stone Lamp on, 81 



Underground Dwellings on, 81, 82 



Breakfasting off Guillemots' Eggs, 323 



