INDEX 



299 



Sandpiper (continued) : 



Parental anxiety of, 227 



Young of, 282 

 Sea eagle (white-tailed eagle or 

 erne) : 



Albino, 48 



Description of, 49-50 



Distribution of, 48-9 



Eggs of, 33-4 



Extermination of, proceeding, 

 42-3 



Eyries of, 44 



Flight of, 48 



Food of, 46 



Golden eagle compared with, 39- 

 40, 47 ; confused with, 13 



Habits of, 41 



Hunting method of, 46-7 



Lambs destroyed by, 41, 46, 47 



Mating of, 47 



Nesthig habits of, 43 



Persecution of, m West of Scot- 

 land, 41, 46, 47 



Prey of, 45 



Yoimg of, 44-5 

 Seabhag, see Peregrine 

 Shetland : 



" Ci-aas' Court " in, 98-9 



Curlew superstition in, 190 



Eyries in, 44 



Grey crows in, 98 



Grouse experiment in, 149 



Sandpipers in, 282 



White sea eagle m, 48 

 Skye, scarcity of sea eagle in, 42, 



50 

 Slater, Henry, cited, 123 

 Snipe : 



Description of, 167 



Distribution of, 167 



Drumming of, 162-3 



Dunlin compared with, 289, 

 291 



Food of, 166-7 



Migration of, 166-7 



Names of, 162, 164-5 



Nest of, 165 



Snipe (continued) : 



TaU feathers of, 164 



Young of, 166 

 Snipe, summer, see Sandpiper 

 Snow buntmg : 



Collector's destruction of, 248 



Description of, 259 



Distribution of, 258 



Early name of, 258 



Eggs of, 253 



FUght of, 252, 256-7 



Food of, 257 



Habits of, 257 



Haunts of, 247 



Nest of, 253 



Song of, 251-3 



Tradition regarding, 255 



Young of, 253-4 

 Snowdon, 35 

 Solan goose, 30 

 Spain, eagles in : 



Foes of, 31 



Golden eagles, 37 



Habits of, 28-9 



Names for, 1 



Serpent eagle, anecdote of, 28 



Wild goats preyed on by, 24-5 

 Spitzbergen, 256 

 Stoats, 110 

 Storm on the hills, a, 112-14 



Tarmachan, see Ptarmigan 



Tree pipit, 272 



Turkestan, eagles for falconry in, 1 



VuLTUBES, Pliny's theory of, 48^, 



Walbo, Mr. Meade, cited, 59 

 Wales, golden eagles in, 35 

 Water ouzel, see Dipper 

 Weather changes, 249-50 

 Whaup, see Curlew 

 White- tailed eagle, see Sea eagle 

 Willoughby cited, 146 



