362 



INDEX. 



Breeclies, Strange Story of a Pair of, 1-23 

 Briglitoii as a starting and arriving Place 



for Migratory Birds, 289 

 Downs, Bird-life on, iSo 



,, Cage-Birds on, 274 



First Run of Motor Cars to, 275 



When Migratory Birds arrive at, in 



the Spring, 292 

 Brooclies, Pec-nliar, at St. Kilda, 19 

 Bullet-hole, Spotted Flvcatoher's Nest in, 190 

 Bullfinches, Close Sitters, 200 



How they are rvmght, 285 



Burrows, or " Nests," of Kabliits, 180 



Petrels, 244 



Habits of, 148 



How Trapped, 148 



Cage Birds, Big Catches of, 281 



„ Calling, 278 



,, How they are caught, 274 



,, Ground on which caught, 280 



,, on Brighton Downs, 274 



,, Where they are sold, 280 



for receiving Newly-Caught Birds, 282 



Call Bii-ds, Value of, 281 



Notes (.f Birds. 281 



Calling Cage Birds, 278 



Grouse, 100 



Partridges, 171 



Camera and Photograjiher falling into a Pond, 

 358 



Birds frightened of a, 354 



Cats, Chance spoilt hy, 101 



Destruetiveness of, 152 



How traiipcl, ].-,2 



Ingeniou.s Trap for, 15:! 



Cattle, Stock of, at St. Kilda, 38 



Cave, Bird-haunted, 314 



Chaffinch, Abnormal Blue Eggs of, 205 



Curious behaviour of, 199 



Devotion of, 199 



Remarkable Accident to, 184 



Chafflnclit's, riiaiiicter of Nests of, 183 



lluw they arc caught, 288 



Nest decorated with Bits of News- 



)iaper, 184 

 Siniultaneiius Ni'st-Building of, 184 



Where thi y Slcrp, 234 



Chanticleer, Fri.>i l.itl.n, S.i:', 

 Characteristics of Gamekeepers, 135 

 Charging Bag, Using an Old Lead Mine as, 358 

 Cheese, St. Kilda, 39 



Chiffchatf, Helping, to Feed her Young', 220 



How She fed her Young, 216 



Child's Life saved by a Homer Pigeon, 324 

 Cleitsof St. Kilda, 40 

 Cliff-climbers, St. Kildaus as, 57 



Climbing, Sensations of, 50 



How to descend, 338 



Important Points in regard to descend- 

 ing, 340 

 — — Photography, Dangers of, 341 



,, How it is Managed, 341 



Sensations of descending, 341 



Terrible Fall from, 120 



Cliffs of Borrera, Scaling the, 78 

 Climb, Uiflicult, 108 



Hazardous, 323 



Stiff and Dangerous, 87 



Stitlest an<l Most Dangerous, in St. 



Kilda, 124 

 Climbing Accidents, 121 

 Clil'liing Shcais unknown in St. Kilda, 41 

 Clock Cliiniing, Man who could not undei- 



stand, 327 

 Collection Boxes, Curicnis, at St. Kilda, 10 

 Coloration, Protective, Value of, 252 



,, Puzzle about, 254 



Commonwealth of St. Kilda, 53j ; 



Complexion of St. Kildans, 40 

 Cormorant, Stalking, 249 

 Cormorants at Karne Islands, 248 



• • Lesser Black-backed Gulls stealing 



Fish from, 250 



Poisoiiousness of Excreta of, 249 



Swimming to a Rock for a Photo- 

 graph of, 348-350 

 Courage, The Evaporation of a Gillie's, 318 

 Cow, Milking, Aboard Ship, 311 

 Crow. Carrion, Nesting Site of, 344 



Grey, Killing, 101 



Crows, Carrion, frightened by Jubilee Beacon 



Fires, 234 

 Crusoe, Modern, 134 



Cuckoo considered a Jlessenger of Death at 

 St. Kilda, 128 



Curious Sleeping Quarters of, 240 



Early Morning Cry of, 133 



Cuckoos, How they put their Eggs in other 



Birds' Nests, 20 

 Curlew, Instincts of, 210 

 Powerful Notes of, 212 



Danger, Curious i^ffect of, 98 

 Dangers of Cliff Photography, 341 



Pilot (..maphing in Trees, 348 



Darling, Ki.lHit. .md the Fame Islands, 330 

 Death Dir.gr, SinL^in,- .1,34 



Click"'. cMDsidcred a Messenger of, 128 



DegcnriMcv. Physical, of Man, 32 



Del>atr. llrat.d, 120 



Decoy I'ipc, liiscription of, 290, etc. 



,, How cleared of Ice, 304 



Decoying, Art of, 295 



Essentials of Successful , 290 



How it is done, 305 



Decoymaii and liis ling at woik, 308 



Good-natured, 309 



Slaying his Captives, 309 



Decoy man's Dog, 290 



Notions, 309 



Deeoymen, Mistakes made by, 305 

 Descending a Cliff, Important Points in regard 



to, 340 



,, Sensations of, 341 



Descent, Dangerous and Difficult, 120 

 Devotion of Birds, 190 



,, Chaffinch, 199 



• ,, Sparrow-hawk, 202 



,, Tree-creeper, 199 



Dignity of St. Kildans, 51 

 Disciplinarian, Strict, 330 

 Dishonesty of Birds, 189 

 Diver, Great Northern, 24 



Red-throated, on Nest, 310 



Diving into a Boat, 121 



Dog, Decoyman's, 290 



Favourite, 157 



Good Chance spoilt by, 108 



Swallowing Frogs, 152 



Temper of, 158 



Dogs, Mischief W)'ought by, 152 



of St. Kihla, 



Doon and St. Kihla, 00 



Caves undci', 98 



Down used in Lining Ducks' Nests, 200 

 Driidv, Big, 43 



Drowning, Narrow Escape from, Oii 

 Duck IJecov, the First, constructed in 

 England, 295 



,, Workeil under Difficulties, 295 



Ducks, Clutches of JCggs of, 200 



Eider, at Fame Islands, 258 



Lure, 290 ; how fed, 304 



Nests, Down employed in lining of, 



200 



Young Eidtr, Ilardihooil of, 2(il ; how 



they breast big Seas, 202 ; swallowed 

 by Lesser Black-backed Gull, 202 



