INDEX TO PROVERBS. 



3G5 



II.INDEX TO PROVERBS IN VOL. II. 



POPULAR RHYMES, SAYINGS, AND WEATHER LORE ABOUT BIRDS. 



BERNACLE 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 fishers, 

 36. 



GOLDEN PLOVER : weather 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, 106. 



RED GROITSE : weather prognostic, 

 169. 



RED-THROATED DIVER : weather 

 prognostic, 311. 



ROCK DOVE : superstition, 149 ; say- 

 ings, 149, 150. 



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. 



III. TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX TO VOL. II. 



Abbey St. Bathans, 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. 



A Ibentum fluvium, 1 66. 



Alyth, For far shire, voracity of 

 Wood Pigeon, 137. 



Ancrum Moor, Common Heron, 40. 



Ancrum Woodhead, 236. 



Angelrow, 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. 



Ay ton, Hawks kept by Mr Belany, 

 3; Billie Mire, 54, 57; Parish 

 Wild Geese Report, 72 ; Pallas's 

 Sand Grouse got at Whitfield, 



