Index 



Merganser, red-breasted, 57, 142, 185, 



188, 195, 197, 199, 2x3 

 Minch, the, 132, 149, 151, 159 



winter birds on, 168 ef seq. 

 Morvern Hills, 43 



eagle in, 42 



Mountain finch (twite), 50 

 "Mountain of the Mist," 4 

 Mull of Cantyre, 102 

 Mull, Island of, 21, 22, 25, 44, 52, 71, 

 108 



Ben More, 40, 46, 82, 84, 85 et seq., 

 118, 119, 120, 161, 166 



blackcock on, 123 



Duart Point on, 23 



Gaelic name of, 82 



Glen More, 32 et seq. 



"Headland of the Caves" on, 100 



heronry on, 75 



kelp industry on, 175 



ptarmigan on, 38 



rainfall on, 39 



tame gull on, 208 

 Mull, Ross of, 88, 103, 139 et seq., 162 



immunity from adders in, 44, 47 



kelp industry on, 175 



"Pot-i" on, 158 



Mull, Sound of, 23, 28, 38, 41, 42, 43, 

 82, 85, 105, 106, 141, 167 



blackcock on shore of, 124 



terns' nesting site in, 96 



NIGHTJAR, 33, 54 



call of, 191 

 Norway, Kings of, buried on lona, 44 



OB AN, 85, 140 

 Observatory, Ben Nevis, 5 

 Orkneys, kelp industry on, 175 

 Ouzel, ring, 5, 9, 35, 83, 199 



water, 35, 208 

 Owl, barn, 56, 187 



Oyster catcher, 10, 13, 47, 55, 118, 120, 

 173, 197, 199 



love-song of, 133 



nesting site of, 191, 193 



PANSY, wild, 42 



Parsley fern, 2, 87 



Passage of Tiree, 108, 161 



Peat bogs, 162 



Peregrine, 14, 38, 68, 104, 117, 141 



160, 1 66, 172, 202, 203 

 and rock pigeons, 172 

 flight of, 141, 142 

 nesting site of, 49, 190, 193 

 Petrel, fulmar, 201; flight of, 112 



storm, u, 51, 173 

 Phalarope, grey, 114, 201 



red-necked, 114; nesting of, 153 et 



seq., 196 



Pipit, meadow, 5, 83, 103, 197 

 rock, i i 2 

 tree, 54, 194 

 Plover, and herons, 75 



golden, 85, 102, 149, 190, 198, 203, 

 213; love song of, 133; migra- 

 tion of, 163 

 green, 52, 166, 186, 215; call of, 54 



(see Lapwing) 

 grey, 212 

 ringed, 166, 173, 185, 202, 203, 205 ; 



nesting of, 133 et seq. 

 Port a' churaich, St. Columba's boat 



at, 45 

 Ptarmigan, 54, 71, 84, 85, 87, 133 



et seq., 194, 207 

 and eagle, 62, 68 

 enemies of, 38, 39 

 life of, 38 et seq. 

 male call of, 39 

 origin of name of, 41 

 scarcity of, in West, 41 

 " Ptarmigan of die waves " (see 



Plover, ringed) 

 Puffin, 119, 121, 140, 173, 188 

 Highland name of, 78 

 migration of, n, 22 

 Puffins on Ernisgeir, 78, 79 



" QUEEN OF THE ISLANDS," 77 et seq. 



RAINFALL at Fort William, 204 



on Mull, 39 



" Raineach " (bracken), 161 

 Rainstorms, salmon and, 55 



