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INDEX. 



Sparrows, House, steal Martins' Nests, ISO 

 Tree, hawking for Flies at St. KiUla, 



58 



„ How to distinguisli, 202 



,, Wliite Eggs of, 204 



Spider's Web said to liave caught Golden- 

 crested Wren, l-iaS 



,, Strength of, 350 



Sport with tlie Fishing Line, 07, OS 

 Stalldng a Cormorant, 249 

 Starh'ngs, Breeding Habits of, 1S4 



How they are cani,dit, 270, 277 



Rc-ira til. "Ml ilia H.,se-tree, 100 



Sill-ill- l.\ Xi-lii. -j:;:, 



Stealin- Sjiairnus' Xests, 100 



Where they sli.'ep, 230 



Steamer on the Roel<s, 130 



" Stranger's Cold" at St. Kilda, 33 

 Strategy, A Pieee of Successful, 315 

 Strawbeiry-growing in High Latitudes, 24 

 Suspended in ;Mid-Air, 112 

 Swallow at St. Kilda, 57 



High Situation of Nest of, 32S 



Swallows, Fully Hedged, roosting in Old 

 Nest, 240 



Photographing, by Flashlight, 240 



,, on a Telegraph 



Wire, 350 

 Sweets for St. Kildans, 1 



Taste for, at St. Kilda, 35 



Swimming a Lost Art at St. Kilda, 23 



to a Rock for a Photograph of 



Cormorants, 34S 



Teetotalers, Difficulties of, in Highlands, 318 

 Telegraph Wire, Photographing Swallows on, 



350 

 Temperateness of St. Kildans, 35 

 Tern, An Angry, 256 



Ri.s.atr, at Fame Islands, 256 



Terns and I'nilictive Coloration, 254 



Clutchrs nf Kl'L'S of, 254 



Defencrlrs<iic^s .if, 257 



Fishing l-.i I'l.y, 250 



Harni.iiiisatiou uf Young, witli Sur- 



rounding Ubje(!ts, 252 



Strange Conduct of, 250, 250 



Wakefulness of, 242 



■ Where they breed, 250 



Young, Variation of Colour of, 252 



Testing Strength of a Spider's Web, 359 

 Thirsts, Noble and Ignoble, 322 

 Thmsh, Early Morning Song of, 133 

 Thrushes, Where they sleep, 234 

 Young, 220 



Timber bored by Teredos, 47 



Washed on St. Kilda by Gulf Stream, 



40 

 Tit, Blue, Nest of, 223 

 Tits, ,, Habits (.r, 221 



Curious X.-si iii:.'-l'l:ires of, 100 



Sleepiii.^; (.inail.is ..f, 238 



Tobacco tor St. Kildans, 1 

 Tourists, Behaviour of, 51 

 Tragedy at St. Kilda, 54 

 Trap, Cat, 1.53 



Curious Fox, 153, 154 



Figiue-of-Four, 144 



Trapping Cats, 152 



Xigldingales, 200 



Stoats, 143, 144 



Tree Creeper, Devotion of a, 100 



Hollow tenanted bv .laelolaws and 



Bees, 103 

 Trees, Uangcns and Difficulties of Photograph- 

 ing Nests in, 344, 340, 348 



Trees, Grouse roosting in, 104 



Turf, Burning, used by Decoy-men, 305 



Underground Dwelling at St. Kilda, 13 ; on 



Borrera, 82 

 Ulysses, A Modern, 130 



Vernnn, Bait for, 140 



Viking Spearhead found at St. Kilda, 13 



Village Bav, Curious Etlect of Wmd in, 05 



,, Dangers of, ii5 



,, Narrow Escape in, '.Mj 



,, Storm in, 00 



Vole, Water, Photographing, 354 



Wagtail, Pied, Curious Nesting-Place of, 190, 

 228 



■ Gi-ay, Photographing, 200 



Water, Falling iiit.i a Shaft full of, 358 



• Plioto'.'i'aiihing in, 352 



Supply at St. Kilda, 43 



Waterhen (see Moorhen) 



WaAes, Effect of, on Passengers, 3 



Jlagnilicence of, 122 



Weather suitable for calling Grouse, 102 

 Weather-Wisdom of a Hebridcan, 2 

 Wedding Rings unknown at St. Kilda, 22 

 Whale and Shags, 315 



Jawbone of. 46 



Oil from a Dead, 40 



Wlicatrar, Early Risiii- ..f, 100 



Whiiiibivl , aii^iit at St. Kilda, 57 



Whistle, Strain, Etlect of, 



Widows, How eared for at St. Kilda, 53 



Wild Duck, Behaviour of, in a Decoy Pipe, 308 



,, Bi.4 Catch of, 205 



■ ,, F..ll.iuiii,u Decoy-man's Dog, .308 



,, Ph.il.'grai.liiiig, 358 



,, Powcis of Scent, 305 



,, Season for taking, 304 



,, Seen from a Decoy Pipe, 300 



,, Where and when they sleep, 241 



Wind, Curious Effect of, 95 



Woman's Esteem, Winning a, 313 



■ Skirt fastened with a French Nail, 



18 

 Women leave Church b,.foiv Mm at St. 

 Kilda, 10 



of St. Kilda, Suspicion of, 20 



Wool cut off Sheep with Knives, 41 

 Wreck, A Narrow Escape from, 130-133 

 Wren, Common, Asleep, 232 



,, " Cocks," Nests of, 180 



, Materials of Nest-building, 



180 



,, Nest of, 184 



■ ,, Positions of Nest of, ISO 



,, Stealing Nesting Materials, 



190 



Golden crested, said to have been 



caught by Sidder's Web, 358 

 St Kilda, on Soa, 114 



,, How it Differs from Main- 



land Species, 71 



,, Nest of, 71 



,, Photographing a, 74 



,, ,, Nest of, 75 



,, Young, 72, 73 



Wood, Nest of, 223 



Y''cllow-hanimer, Alarm Note of, 234 



Slcci)ing Quarters of, 234 



Viirkshirc, lligh.st Inhabited House in 327 

 Yorkshircmau's Dry Humour, 328 

 " Grand Day," 310 



Queer Notions of London, 328 



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