XXIV CONTENTS. 



FIELD-NOTES FOE THE YEAR 

 CHAPTER XII. 



JANUARY. 



Wood - pigeons Feeding of Widgeon and Mallards Wild - 

 fowl Water-rail Wild-duck Shooting Change of colour 

 in Trout . Page 169 



CHAPTER XIII. 



FEBRUARY. 



Change of colour in Stoats Affection of Otters for their young 

 Eoe-hunting Attachment of Birds to their Mates Food 

 of Fieldfares during Snow Widgeon Wild-fowl shooting 

 at Spynie Incidents in Shooting Winged Swan Cats 

 Food of Wild-geese Brent Goose . . . . 178 



CHAPTER XIV. 



MARCH. 



Wild-swans Loch of Spynie ; Wild-fowl on it Pochard 

 Carrion Crows Death of Wild -swan Domestication of 

 Wild-fowl ; flavour of Arrival of Geese . . . 193 



CHAPTER XV. 



APRIL. 



Field-mice Brent Geese Arrival of ; Migratory Birds In- 

 stinct of Crows in Feeding Instinct _of Thrushes Disap- 

 pointments in Shooting Wild-geese Death of White-fronted 

 Geese Shetland Pony Heronry Anecdote of Roebuck 

 Wild-duck's Nest . 205 



