Index 



Raven, 2, n, 12, 13, ax, 32, 38, 42, 47, 

 49, 71, 73, 84, 91, 101, 102, 117, 



141, l6o, 202, 204 



Gaelic legend of, 1421 



nesting site of, 142, 184, 186, 215 

 Razorbill, 23, 140, 160 

 Redshank, 187, 190 



can of, 54 

 Redwing, 58, 206 

 Reidh Eilean, 51 

 Rhum, Island of, 2 

 Rock pigeons and peregrine, 172 

 Rudha a' Choinn, rocks of, 151 

 Rudha Mhail lighthouse, 86 

 "Rudha na h'uamha," 100 et seq. 

 Rudha Stoer, 152 



lighthouse, 173, 214 



"SAINT BRIDGET'S LAD" (oyster 



catcher), 118 



St. Columba, and lona, 44 

 St. John's Wort, 141 

 St. Kilda, 166 

 Saithe (" Piocaich "), 162 

 Salen, 106 



Salmon, 34, 52, 55, 83, 109 

 Salmon nets, 109 

 " Salsola soda," 176 

 Sand martin, 188 



Sanderling, 159, 164, 170, 171, 189, 203 

 Sandpiper, 9, 87, 188, 197 



purple, 159, 169, 185, 198, 210, 211 

 Saxijraga azoides, 7 



hy-pnoides, 2 



nivalis, 84 



stettaris, 2, 4 

 Saxifrage, mountain, 42, 84, 87 



starry, 2, 4, 87 

 " Sea pheasant " (see Long-tailed 



duck) 



Scarinish lighthouse, 86 

 Schiehallion, 4 

 Scottish Kings, burial place of, in 



lona, 44 

 Sea swallow (see Tern), 23, 49, 120, 



173 

 and herons, 75 



Sea swallow, food of, 95 



migration of, 98, 99 

 tribe of, 94 et seq. 

 Seal, brown, 120 



grey, 13, 77, 112, 113, 120 



breeding grounds of, 16 et seq. 



close time for, 16 

 Sea thrift, 55, 87, 94, 173 

 Seaweed, giant, as manure, 48 

 "Seven Sleepers," the, 163 

 Sgeir Mhor, in 

 Sgor a' Mhaim, 4 

 Shag, 17, 80, 173, 212 



(See Cormorant, green) 

 Shearwater, great, 113, 140, 173, 201 



Manx, 23, 79, 113, 186, 201 

 Shelduck, 185 



nesting place of, 119 

 Silene acaulis, 4, 42, 84, 117, 195 

 Skerryvore, 98, 153, 159, 161 



banks, 140 



lighthouse, 86, 101, in et seq., 159 

 Skua, 159, 194 



migration of, 31 



tradition concerning, 31 

 Skua, Arctic or Richardson's, nesting 

 of, 25 et seq., 197, 204 



photographing of, 28-29 



piratical habits of, 30-31 



plumage of, 291 

 Skye, Island of, 109, 130 



fairies of, 144 



fire on, 108 

 Slieve Snaght, 102 

 Snipe, 13, 189, 199 

 Snowfield on Ben Cruachan, 34 



on Ben More, 120 



on Ben Nevis, 4, 43, 85, 193 



on Bidean nam 'Bian, 5 

 Snowfields in the Garbhchoire Mhor, 



67 



Solan goose, 47, 48, 79, 121, 140, 143, 

 159, 163, 165, 185, 197 



flight of, 94, in, 113, 197, 198, 201 

 Solan goose, nesting site of, 48 

 Staff a, 120 



Stags, 7, 33, 34, 42, 58, 68, 83, 84, 187, 

 205, 207 



