Index. 



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Native plants of Craigmillar dis- 

 trict, list of, 143 et seq. 



Nether Liberton, village of, 174 — 

 mill at, ib. — dovecot at, 175. 



Newts, 73 — hatching of, 74. 



Niddrie House, 218— grounds of, 

 222 — Hugh Miller a workman at, 

 ib. 



Niddrie Mill, 222. 



Night-jar, the, 103. 



Ormiston, Laird of, the confession 

 of, regarding Darnley's murder, 

 37, 39 et seq. 



Otter, the, 55— hunt of, at Niddrie, 

 56. 



Over Liberton, barony of, 17S et seq. 



Owl, the barn, 85 — the tawny, 86 — 

 the short-eared, 88 — the long- 

 eared, ib. 



Partridge, the, 112. 



Paterson, George, excavator of the 

 Gilmerton cave, 237. 



Peewit or lapwing, the, 109— pop- 

 ular prejudice regarding, no. 



Peffer Mill, 211 — traditionary sub- 

 terranean passage from Craig- 

 millar to, 14. 



Pennj-cuick, the poet, lines on the 

 Gilmerton cave by, 237. 



Pentland Rising, the, 197 et seq. 



Pentlands, the, 153 et seq. passim, 

 197. 



Peregrine falcon, the, 103. 



Pheasant, the, 112. 



Pied wagtail, the, 119. 

 • Pipit, the tree-, 119 — the meadow-, 

 120 — the rock-, ib. 



Plover, the golden, 109. 



Preston, derivation of name of, 26 

 — notices of the family of, ib. et 

 seq. — armorial bearings of fam- 

 ily of, 16, 21, 27. See also St 

 Giles's Cathedral. 



Preston, John, and witch-burning, 

 29. 



Preston, Simon or Synion, initials 

 of name of, on Craigmillar Castle, 

 22 — charters of Craigmillar Castle 

 obtained by, 26 — children of, 27 

 — royal grants to, 29. 



Preston, Sir William de, 26 et seq. 



Prestonfield, house and grounds of, 

 216 — burning of house of, by stu- 

 dents of Edinburgh University, 

 ib. — name of, changed from 

 Priestfield, 217. 



Proximate landscape of Craigmillar, 

 the, 206 et seq. 



Quail, the, 83. 



Quarries at Craigmillar, notices of 



the, 164 et seq. 

 Queen Mar}'. See Mary, Queen. 



Rankine, William, name of Little 

 assumed by, 189 — descendants of, 

 ib. 



Rats, numbers of, at Craigmillar 

 irrigation-farm, 66. 



Redpole, the, 120. 



Redstart, the, 122. 



Redwing, the, loi. 



Reed-bunting, the, 120. 



Reptiles at Craigmillar, 71. 



Ring-ousel, the, 122. 



Robin, the, 117. 



Rock-garden, a natural, 133. 



Rock-pipit, the, 120. 



Rosebery, Earl of, seedling from 

 Queen Mary's tree planted at 

 Linlithgow Palace by, 141. 



RuUion Green, battle at, 197— 

 Covenanters' monument at, 198 — 

 annual religious service at, ib. 



Sand-martin, the, 115. 

 Sandpiper, the common, 122. 

 Scott Riddell, verses by, in Queen 



Mary's room at Craigmillar 



Castle, 8. 

 Sedge-warbler, the, 117— nest of 



ib. — song of, ib. 

 Short-eared owl, the, 88. 

 Shrew, the, 71 — the lesser, ib. 

 Silurian System, Upper and Lower, 



of the Pentlands, fossils of, 158. 

 Simpson, John, architect, notice of, 



231. 

 Siskin, the, 120. 

 Slow -worm, the, at Craigmillar, 71 



— at the Braids, 72. 



