INDEX. 



367 



St. Kikla, Market Day, iO 



Married state (li.stin^'ui.shed by 



Peculiar Head-dress, 22 



Meetiiis; of Past and Present, 23 



Men, lb 



,, make Women's Clothes, IS 



Method of eatchin-; Sheep, 40 



Milkini^Ewes, lH 



^rortality amongst Babes, 33 



Origin of People of, IS 



Parliament of, ,')3 



Parting with Natives of, 129 



Pastures on .Sea-Clitfs, 41 



Petrels breeding, 244 



Phvsiral D.-eneracv of People of, 32 



Pietv ..f l'.'M|,k. ,,f, 11 



Poi. Illation nf, :;2 



Queen of, Cil 



Ravages of Smallpox, 34 



Relics, 53 



Rough Seas, 43 



Sale of Sea-Birds' Eggs, 8 



Seals at, 4S 



Seeming Indiderence of Inhabitants 



to Arrival of Strangers, 

 Sharing Profit of Boat, 03 



,, Birds' Eggs, 53 



Sharks, 48 



■ Signs of Modernity, 22 



• Steepness of Rucks, (iO 



Stock of Cattle ami Sheep, 38 



Stone Lamp still iu use, 14 



■ " Stranger's cold," 33 



Sunday, 9 



Swallow, 57 



Taste for Sweets, 35 



■ The only inhabited part of the 



British Isles unsurveyed, 36 



Tree Sparrows, 58 



Underground Dwelling, 13 



Viking Spearhead found, 13 



■ Watohfidness of Inhabitants of, 38 



\Vat.-i--Sui>pIy, 42 



AVedding Rings unknown, 22 



Whimbrel caught at, 57 



Why the Temperature of the Sea is 



lower in Summer than Winter, 24 



Woman's Skirt fastened with a 



French Nail, IS 



Women do Hard Work, 8 ; do Men's 



Work, IS; leave Church 

 before Men, 10 



■ ,, Suspicion of, 2(5 



Wren, 70 ; Eggs of, 72 ; How it 



differs from Slaiuland Species, 71 ; 



Nest of, 71 

 Sabbath, Snaring Grouse on, 158 

 Sale, OfTering the Illustrator for, 49 

 Saltee Islands, Puffins at, 272 

 Samson Post "Trap, 144 

 Sanitary Arrangements of Birds, 218 

 Sassenach, Dreail of the, 38 

 Scaring a Cragsman, 324 

 Scent retained by Breeding Game Birds, 166 

 Scot, A very Cautious, 320 

 Scotland, Larks decreasing in, 284 

 Scottish Gamekeepers' Sorrow and Scorn, 140 

 Scoulton Mere, Gulls at, 272 

 Scriptiii'.--;. Plmtngrapher's Ignorance of, 140 

 Sea, A Missaui' frnm the, 5 

 Sea-birds and their Haunts, 248 



Mortality amongst, 258 



Seals on Hiasker Islands, 3 



Visits of, to St. Kilda, 48 



Season for taking Wild Duck, 304 

 Secret of Field-work, 354 

 Sensations of Cliff-climbing, 56 



of Descending a Cliff, 341 



Shag's Nest, 88 



Photographing Young, 104 



Shags, Whale rising under a Flock of, 315 

 Shakespeare and the Bagpip3s in England, 37 

 Sharks at St, Kilda, 48 

 Shearwater, Manx, Nesting Hole of, 6i) 

 Sheep at Half-a-cruwn each, 41 



Curious Breed of, 39 



Cutting Wool of, with Knives, 41 



Killed on Borrera, 87 



Lowered to browse on Ledges of Cliffs, 



41 



Method of catching, 4U 



Remarkable fecnnditv of, 41 



Stock of, at St. Kilda', 38 



Shelduck, Finding the Nest of, 316 



■ Peculiar Habit of, 264 



Shipwrecked Spaniards, 5 



Shooting Grouse, 164 



Shopping at St. Kilda, 26 



Shrike, Photographing, on her Nest, 200 



Signalling, Peculiar Manner of, for Help, 84 



Sitting up for Photographs, 316 



Skua, Richardson's, Hunting for the Nest of, 



319 

 Sleep, Birds that require Little, 246 

 Sleeping Birds, how they keep warm. 232 

 ,, Perches, 232 



Habits and haunts of Blackbirds, 



234 ; Cuckoo, 240 ; Fieldfares, 247 ; 

 Great Black-backed Gulls, 242 ; Gulls, 

 242; Hedgespairows, 234; Kitti wakes, 

 242 ; Nightjar, 245 ; Owls, 244 ; Petrels, 

 244 ; Pheasants, 240, 247 ; Ravens, 240 ; 

 Robins, 234; Starlings, 235 ; Swallows, 

 239 ; Terns, 242 ; Tits, 238 ; Wild Duck, 

 241 



Smallpox, Ravages of, at St. Kilda, 34 

 Smell, Sense of, in Fulmar Petrel, 62 

 Smuggling in East Anglia, 310 

 Snare that saved a Man's Life, 112 

 Snow, PliotoL;ra|iliinL; Birds in the, 355 

 Soa, An Awkward l^land to land on, 106 



Curious Breed of Sheep on, 39 



Great Number of Puffins on, 102, 113 



Prospects of a compulsory stay on, 120 



Rough Seas round, 121 



Soaring of Solan Geese, 268 



Solan Geese building their Nests, 88 



,, How caught while asleep, 90, 92 



,, Language of, 92 



,, Martin's first Experience of, 88 



,, Number killed at St. Kilda, 90 . 



,, on Bass Roi-k, 265-266 



,, on Stack Lee, 76, 93 



,, on the Wing, 94 



,, Return to Summer Quarters, 90 



,, Roguery of, 88, 266 



,, Sentinels to Warn, 92 



■ ,, Soaring of, 268 



,, Tameness of, 266 



. Goose, Curious Accident to, 93] 



,, ,, Finds in the Nest of, 93 



Soldiers' Pillows, Fulmars' Featliers in, 119 

 Song of Thrush in Early Morning, 133 

 Sparrow-hawk and Live Birds, 285 



,, ,, Prey, 202 



Sparrow-hawk's Devotion, 202 



Sparrows, House, Change of Sleeping Quarters, 

 238 



„ Clutch of Eggs of, 202 



,, Destroying each other's 



Eggs, 189 



,, Eggs of, 204 



,, Examining, in their Sleep- 



ing Quarters, 238 



,, Make Sleeping Quarters, 236 



,, Nests stolen bv Starlings, 



190 

 ■ ,, Sexes of, 241 



,, Sleep in Old Nests and 



Nesting-Box, 235 



