PREFATORY NOTE. Xlll 



of Fishes. Nor can they omit mention of the 

 keepers, shepherds, and ghillies, everywhere 

 throughout the county, too numerous to mention 

 by name, who have so often given them a 

 helping hand, without which many a pleasant 

 and successful nesting expedition would have 

 proved a failure." 



The only other additions to the volumes are 

 Capt. H. C. St. John's brief recollections of his 

 boyhood ; and the vignette illustrations from the 

 author's sketch-books, which have been carefully 

 drawn and engraved by Mr. John Adam, 

 Edinburgh. 



June 1884. 



