CHAPTER XVIII PAGE 



Outer Hebrides. — Some little known islands — ^Rockall — 

 Benbecula — ^Fair Island — Vee Skerries — Seven 

 Hunters 178 



CHAPTER XIX 

 Norwegian Bird Notes. — British Birds in a new setting 

 — Birds in the open sea — Stavanger — Bergen — 

 White wagtails — Homellen — ^IVIuldoen — U biquit- 

 ous starlings — How absence of darkness affects 

 birds- Young fieldfares — ^The Nordfjord — ^The 

 Stryn Valley — Concentration of birds near home- 

 steads — Fieldfare colonies — Precarious nesting 

 of spotted flycatcher — Pied flycatchers — ^Wheat- 

 ears — Familiar bird figures missing — ^The Joster- 

 dal Glacier — Common Gulls nesting — Sandene 

 and Skei — ^Tame magpies — Pied flycatchers in the 

 homes — Sandpipers and redshanks — A dipper's 

 nest — ^The Brambhng — ^Nedre Vasenden — Roof 

 gardens — Ryper 185 



CHAPTER XX 

 Birds on a Swiss Glacier. — ^A vaUey of butterflies — ^The 

 Nutcracker — ^The Buzzard — ^A glimpse of Snow 

 Buntings — ^The Alpine Accentor — Choughs ... 207 



CHAPTER XXI 

 Some Canadian Birds. — ^The WHiip-poor-will — Canadian 

 singing birds — ^The Phoebe bird — ^American 

 Robin — Blue Jay — Red - winged Blackbird 

 Titmice — Woodpeckers — Humming - birds — 

 Purple Grackle — Baltimore Oriole — Belted 

 Kingfisher ... 215 



Index 222 



