Index 



Fame Islands, purple sandpipers on, 



211 



" Feadagan " (golden plover), 149 



Field mice, tame, 63 



Fieldfares, 58, 206 



" Finnocks " (sea trout), 52 



Fionphort, 45, 46, 47 



Firth of Lorne, 85, 89 



Flounders, in Sound of lona, 48 



Fort William, rainfall at, 204 



Fossil Tree, 104 



Fox, 38, 130 



Foxglove, yellow dye from, 101 



GANNET (see Solan goose) 

 Garbhchoire Mhor, 67 

 Geese, migration of, 12, 121 



flight of, 152 



white-fronted, 149 et seq. 

 " Gille Bridghe" (oyster catcher), 118 

 " Glastig," the, 167 

 Glen Coe Hills, 85 

 Glen More, Mull, 32 et seq., 79, 83, 



102 



Glen of the Sea Pool, legend of, 57 

 Glencoe, 43 



Goatsucker (see Nightjar) 

 Godwits, 159, 170, 171, 213 



Bar -tailed, 170, 202 

 Gometra, 44, 46, 78 

 Gott Bay, Tiree, 105, 107 

 Grebe, little, 206 

 Green Loch, 67 et seq. 

 Greenshank, 121, 185, 203, 204 

 Grey Islands, 106 

 Gribun Rocks, 78, 85 

 Grilse, 34, 159 



Grouse, 85, 102, 131, 191, 207 

 Gruinard Bay, 130, 132 

 " Guilbinneach " (Whimbrel), 134 

 Guillemot, 23, 119, 120, 140, 160, 173, 

 185, 214 



black, n, 12, 79, 120; winter 



plumage of, 17 

 Gull, black-backed, 113, 166, 198 



black-headed, 27, 96, 97, 170, 195, 

 211 



Gull, common, 26, 72, 87, 96, 170, 186, 

 188, 195, 198, 208; nesting of, 

 184-185 



greater black-backed, 14, 17, 143 

 herring, 26, 143, 166, 195, 211, 213 

 lesser black-backed, 26, 143 

 Gulls, and herons, 75 

 Gunna, Sound of, 95, 165 



HARRIS, 149 



kelp industry on, 176 

 " Headland of the Caves," too 

 Heather, bell, 141 



green, as adornment of eagle's nest, 

 8; on Mull, 82; ptarmigan and, 



4* 



Hebrides, kelp industry in, 175 



Outer, old name for, 118 



terns' nesting site, 97 

 Heiskeir lighthouse, 86 

 Hekla, 2 



Hermit crabs, 80 

 Heron, 22, 188 



bird enemies of, 75 



eggs of, 73 



flight of, 75 



food of, 75 



nesting site of, 71 et seq. 

 Herons, glen of the, 71 et seq. 

 " Herring birds " (Puffins), 78 

 Herring fishery, Tiree, 162 

 Hill of the Two Winds, 38, 41 

 Hoodie crow, 13 

 Horseman's corrie, Braeriach, 3 

 Hyacinth, wild, 33, 161 



INCH KENNETH, Isle of, burial grounds 



on, 117, 118, 120 

 Innistrahull lighthouse, 86 

 Iodine from tangle-ash, 177 

 lona Cathedral, 44 

 lona, island of, 44 et seq., 88, 103 

 legends of, 48, 49, 144 

 origin of name of, 45 

 Sound of, 45, 114, 139; flounders 

 in, 48; kelp industry on, 175, 

 178 



219 



