INDEX 



Adder, ii6 



Alt-na-cahr, 49 



Altyre forest, 305, 308, 361 



Animals'instinct,i2i(?/^fy.,4i9; wild, 



service of, 191 

 Awe, Loch, 3, 10 



Badger, 200, 391 (?/j^7.;trapping, 395; 



and wasps' nests, 396 

 Baits,forlochfishing, 10, i2;forweasel 



tribe, 167 

 Bean goose, 254 



Benmore, muckle hart of, 333 etseq. 

 Birds, bills of, 215, 419; migration of, 



3i3;nestsof, i22^/jiy.,4l9;ofprey, 



145 etseq.; tameness of, 453 ^/j^^. 

 Blackcock, 36, 42 et seg., 304 

 Black-backed gull, 138, 353, 354 



„ -headed gull, 257, 351 



„ -throated gull, 353 



„ -toed gull, 356 

 Blue-backed gull, 355 

 Boatswain gull, 356 

 Brown ferrets, 167 

 Bulldog in stag hunting, 183 

 Bullfinch, 454 

 Bunting, corn, 164; snow, 113; tawny, 



113 



Butcherbird, 112 

 Buzzard, 140, 141, 295 



Caledonian Canal, advantage to 



poachers, 74 

 Carrion crow, 421 

 Cat, domestic, as a hunter, 5 5 ; marten, 



36, 1 34, ibqelseq. ; two kinds of, 172; 



wild, 5, 8, 14, 17, 53 elseq., 134 

 Chaffinch, 122,419 

 Char, 7 



Coignafern, 300, 307 

 Coot, bald, 243, 421 

 Copthall, 309 



Cormorant, 138,196, 198,200,214,216 

 Corncrake, see Landrail 

 Coulmony, 304 

 Coursing red deer, 429 et seq. 

 Cromarty, rocksat, 1 96; narrow escape 



at, 200 



469 



Crossbill, 109,422 



Crow, 104,455; carrion, 421; grey,l24, 



131 ; hooded, 137, 195, 221 

 Cruives, 83 

 Cuckoo, 238 

 Culbin sandhills, 114 

 Curlew, 222, 225, 421 



Dabchick, see Grebe, lesser 



Dahlvaik, 290 



Dalmigarie, 298 



Darnaway forest, 305, 308, 352, 361 



Deerhound, 429 et seg. 



Deer, red, 40, 47, 125, 132, 183, 277 et 



seq--, 333 etseq.,s,o->„ 408, 409; cq\xx%- 



\n'g,i,^c) etseq. 

 Deer, roe, 2i et seg., 36, 125, 126, 269, 



304; taming fawns, 22; nocturnal 



habits, 29 

 Dogs, 33; and badgers, 395; instinct 



of, 175 et seg.; sporting, 39; temper 



of, 180 

 Duck, common, 42 1, 424; golden-eye, 



213; long-tailed, 211; scaup, 205; 



tufted, 205; velvet, 212; wild, 123, 



127, 205 ^/j-i'i?., 422, 423, 456 

 Dulsie, bridge of, 303 

 Dunearn woods, 303 



Eagle, 49, 124, 131 elseq., ; golden, 



334, 336 

 Eel, 10,92 



Falcon, 14, 124 



Peregrine, 43, 135, 187, 199, 



259, 292, 307 

 Ferret, brown, 167; white, 168 

 Field mouse, loi 

 Findhorn Bay, 318 



„ fly, 89; hawk, 135; heronry, 



258, 307 

 Findhorn River, 82, 83,91, 135, 136, 



139, 159, 160, 2%i)etseq., 303 etseq., 



370; spearing salmon on, 86 

 Fish and weather changes, 424 



,, catching birds, bills of, 215 

 Flies, salmon, 91 

 Floating lines, loch fishing 9 



