Index 



Rowan berries, 138 



Rubus chamoemorus (see Avern) 



St. Abb's Head, 209 



Saint Columba and lona, 60, 184 



chapel of, on F lad da, 80 

 St. Dabeoc's heath, 142 

 St. Kilda, 79, 90, 91, 93, 100 

 Salix herbacea, 82, 107 

 Salmon, and Linn of Dee, 120 et seq. 



migration of, 121-24 



of Dee, 204-6 



spawning of, 146 et seq. 

 Sandpiper, 30, 41, 80, 204 



purple, 190, 201, 2IO 

 Sandray, 100 

 Saunders, Howard, on great northern 



diver, 189 

 Saxifraga offositijoUa, 6, 10 

 Saxifraga stellaris, 178 

 Saxifrage, purple mountain, 10 

 Scarinish, 46 

 Schiehallion, 64, 67, 166 

 Scoter, 22, 190, 200 ; nesting haunt of, 

 40 et seq. 



velvet, 209, 210 

 Seahouses, 199, 200, 202, 203 

 Seal, grey and Greenland, 175, 200, 



201, 202 

 Sennt (Shiant) Islands, 79 

 Sgeir a' Chaisteil (Castle Rock), 45 

 Sgeir an Fheoir (Grass Island), 45 

 Sgoran Dubh, 37, 63, 64, 139, 149-53, 



196 

 Sgor an Lochan Uaine (Cliff of the 

 Small Green Tarn), 63 et seq., 

 159, 160 

 Sgurr of Eigg, 88 

 Shag, 18, 49, 127 

 Shearwater, 16, 87, 125 



Manx, 115, 118 

 Shelduck, 14, 22 

 Siberia, migration of godwit to, 171 



grey geese and, 20 

 Silene acaulis, 56, 63, 80, 81, 83, 178 

 Skerry vore (Sgeir mhor) Lighthouse, 



46, 60, 71, 96, 103 

 Skird Rocks, 183 



Skua, arctic, 86, 125 



Skye, Isle of, 39, 47, 58, 91, 96, 117 



piping school on, 62 

 Slievemore, 173, 175 

 Snipe, 164 

 Snowfields on Braeriach, 82, 138, 139 



on Monadh Mor, 65 



on Sgor an Lochan Uaine, 64 

 Snow-line in Cairngorm Hills, 81 



in Pyrenees, 7 

 Snowy Corrie (Coire an t-tneachda), 51 

 Soay Beag, 79 

 Soay Mor, 79 

 Spey, 54, 81 



Valley of, 138, 151, 152, 153, 160, 

 162 

 Sphagnum moss, 66 

 Spitzbergen, long-tailed duck and, 188 



wild geese and, 13, 20, 119 

 Sputan Dearg, 159 

 Sron na Lairige, 54, 137, 193 

 Staffa, legend of, 46 

 Staffa Mor (Big Staffa), 46 

 Stags, 59, 85, 137, 138, 139, 146, 148, 

 150, 152, 153, 159, 164, 165, 166, 

 ^67, i79j 192, 194. 198 



fighting of, 143-45 

 Stalkers in Pyrenees, 9 

 Stoat, 194 



Stornoway road, 77 

 Struan, 166 

 Swallows, 9, 24, 68 



sea, 16, 25 

 Swift, 35 



Tailors' Corrie, 136 



Taimyr Peninsula, knot and, 210 



Taransay, 78-79 



Taransay Glorigs, 79 



Tarbert, 77 



Tern, 46, 86 



arctic, 201 



sandwich, 22, 24, 43 

 Thyme, wild, 78 



Tiree, Island of, 45, 60, 61, 86, 87, 88, 

 92, 96, 103 



Passage of, 61, 125 

 Tit, crested, 32 



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