INDEX TO PEOVERBS. 



365 



IL— INDEX TO PROVERBS IN VOL. 11. 



rOrULAR RHYMES, SAYINGS, AND WEATHER LORE ABOUT BIRDS. 



Bernaclk Goose : belief in olden 

 times about origin, 94. 



Common Bittern : " Bogle of Billie 

 Myre," 53. 



Common Cormorant : weather prog- 

 nostic, 31. 



Common Curlew : name associated 

 with goblins, &c., 260. 



Common Gull : weather prognostic, 

 275 ; rhyme, 275 ; superstition, 

 276. 



Common Heron : saying of Archi- 

 bald, seventh Earl of Angus, at 

 Ancrum Moor, 40 ; weather prog- 

 nostic, 42. 



Common Partridge : French pro- 

 verb, 186 ; rhyme, 189. 



Gannet : saying of salmon fisliers, 

 36. 



Golden Plover : weatlier prognos- 

 tic, 222, 223. 



Herring Gull : weather prognos- 

 tic, 284. 



Landrail : rhyme, 196. 



Lapwing : weather lore, 226 : regard- 

 ed as a bird of ill-omen, 228, 229 ; 

 weather prognostic, 229 ; rhymes 

 and sayings, 229. 



Lesser Black-backed Gull : pro- 

 verb, 285. 



Mallard : saying, lOG. 



Red Grouse : weather prognostic, 

 169. 



Red-tiiroated Diver : weather 

 prognostic, 311. 



Rock Dove : superstition, 149 ; say- 

 ings, 149, 1.50. 



Storm Petrel : origin of name, 321 ; 

 weather prognostic, 322. 



Wild Goose : arrival, sign of sea- 

 sons, 67 ; belief amongst boys, 

 88 ; rhymes, 87, 88 ; saying about 

 geese, 106. 



Whooper : vows to the Swan, 97. 



Woodcock : popular saying, 239. 



Wood Pigeon : sayings, 140. 



Ill— TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX TO VOL. II. 



Abbey SL BafJians, Parish Wild 

 Geese Report, 72 ; Golden- Eye on 

 Whitadder, 120; Pallas's Sand 

 Grouse, 156; Black Grouse, 160; 

 Red Grouse, 164; bags got, 162 ; 

 numbers in end of last century, 

 163; contents of crop, 168; Par- 

 tridge shooting, 181 ; Common 

 Quail, 191; Dotterel, high grounds 

 visited by great numbers in former 

 times, 211, 214; on heights in 

 recent years, 212, 214, 216, 218; 

 Black-headed Gull, 274; Little 

 Auk found dead, 306. 



Abbey Farm, North Berwick, 64. 



Aikenga, Lapwing, 229. 



Albentnm Jlurium, 166. 



Alyth, Forfarsliire, voracity of 

 Wood Pigeon, 137. 



Ancrum Moor, Common Heron, 40. 



Ancrum Woodliead, 236. 



Ange.Irow, Wild Geese, 80. 



Arniston, Hawfinch, 351. 



Auchencrow Mains, 54 ; drainage of 

 Billie Mire, 58 ; Wild Geese, 76. 



Auchencrow, notes on Billie Mire by 

 Mr. Thomas Hewit, 61. 



Avenue Bridge at Paxton, 142. 



Ayton, Hawks kept by Mr Belany, 

 3; Billie Mire, 54, 57; Parish 

 Wild Geese Report, 72 ; Pallas's 

 Sand Grouse got at Whitfield, 



