Index 



Cuchulain Hills (Skye), 39, 47, 58, 80, 



91 

 Cunach, 166 

 Curlew, 1, 12, 32, 34, 36, 46, 51, 170, 



211 

 Curragh, 183 

 Cushion pink (silene acaulis), 38, 52, 



55. 81, 109 



Dabeocia folifoUa, 142 

 Dalnaspidal, 166 



Darling, Grace, room of, at Long- 

 stone, 201 

 Dee, River, 54, 66, 67, 81, 135, 177, 

 178, 179, 193, 197, 198, 204-6 



Linn of, salmon and, 120 et seq. 



pools of, 54, 137, 162, 193, 196 



salmon spawning in, 146 et seq. 



source of, 82, 196 



valley of, 65, 146, 159, 180 



wells of, 38, 81 et seq., 196 

 Deer forest, life of, 30 et seq. 

 Devil's Point, 135, 137, 159, 193 

 Diver, black-throated, 189 



great northern, 171, 182, 189 



red-throated, 189, 200 

 Dooagh, 172 

 Doolin Point, 183 

 Dotterel, 31, 53, 178 



nesting site of, 105 et seq. 



plumage of, 106 

 Duart, Castle of, 59, 86 



Laird of, 59 

 Dubh Hirteach Lighthouse, 46, 60, 71 

 Dubh Loch, 57, 146 

 Duck, eider, 24, 191, 199, aoi 



long-tailed, 188, 205, 210 



mallard, 204, 208 



tufted, 40, 41, 206 

 Dun Mngus, the, 181 

 Dun di Ghaoith (Hill of the Two 



Winds), 59, 92 

 Dun I, 46, 92 



Dun, the (Doune), 165, 166 

 Dunlin, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 171, 190, 208 

 Dunoon, 58 

 Dunvegan, 91 

 Dutchman's Cap, the, 61, 89 



Eagle, 30, 53, 63, 78, 85, 151, 165, 167, 

 178, 179, 180 

 booted, 9 

 golden, 64, 137, 138, 152, 162, 168, 



173 ; nesting site of, 31 

 sea, 100, 173 

 Eagle Island Lighthouse, 174 

 Easaval of South Uist, 90 et seq. 

 Eaval (North Uist), 47 



Eigg. 47, 58, 91 

 Sgurr of, 88 

 Einich Cairn, 82, 196 

 Em-petrum nigrtim (see Crowberry) 

 Erica cinerea, 91, 140, 141, 142 

 Erica Mediterranean 142 

 Erica tetralix, 140, 141 

 Eriskay, Island of, 92 

 "Ewen of the Little Head," 59 

 Eye, Peninsula of, 79 



Fakne, Inner, Lighthouse, 23, 200 

 Fame Islands, 18, 20, 23, 25, 188, 199 

 Feith Bhuidhe burn, 53, 54, 56 

 Fenham Slakes, birds on, 12, 21 

 Firs, Scots, 138, 146, 150, 192 



spiral growth of, 8 

 Fladda Chuain, 80 

 Fladda, Island of, 45, 89 

 Flannan Islands (Seven Hunters), 79 

 Forest fire, 32 

 Fox, 56, 151, 166, 194, 195 



white, 151 

 Fuar Garbh Choire, 82, 178, 196 



Gaick, Forest of, 66, 152 



Lodge, 165 

 Galway, 181, 182 



Gannet, 16, 22, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 100, 

 i75» 201 

 and Bass Rock, 130 et seq. 

 nesting of, 131-34 

 Garbh Choire, 38, 54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 

 66, 67, 82, 136, 159, 160, 177, 

 179, 180, 196 

 Garbh Choire Mhor, 177-80 

 Gavarnie, 6, 10 

 Gentian, 6 

 Geusachan, the, 196 



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