INDEX. 



Accident, Curious, to a Moorhen, 228 



Laughable, 66 



Remarkable, to a Chaffinch, 184 



Whilst Swimming to a Rock to Photo- 

 graph Cormorants, 359 

 Accidents, Climbing, 124 



Minor, 356 



to Young Rabbits, 180 



Adder, Photographing an, 140 

 Adventure, Tale of, 134 

 Ailsa Craig, Puffins on, 268 



Very Early Morning Visit to, 322- 



326 



Alarm, False, 38 

 Animals, Differences in, 238 



Wild, Photographing, 354 



Ankle, Development of Cliff-climber's, 44 

 Apartment, Old Maid's, at St. Kilda, 34 

 Apparatus, Our Photographic, 334 

 Architecture of Birds' Nests, 183 



Bagpipes, Effect of, on St. Kildans, 37 

 Bass Rock, How to reach, 265 

 Beards of St. Kilda Men, 32 

 Becking for Grouse, 160, 163 

 Bees never seen at St. Kilda, 128 

 Bell on the Neck of a Goose, 156 

 Bible, Grace Darling's, 332 

 Biorrach, 124 



Bird-catcher, Immortalising a, 281 

 catchers' Call-Birds, 278 



Care for their Birds, 282 



How they Work, 278 



Lure Birds, 280 



Plant, 282 



-catching an Inherited Instinct, 294 



Places, Favourite, round 



Brighton, 286 



Change of Habits in, 292 



Island, A Famous, 313 



. Life in the Firth of Lome, 321 



Lime, Species caught by, 288 



Male, Feeding Young, alone, 230 



Mistaking Rising of Moon for Sun, 246 



Birds and Spare Nests, 186 



Call -Notes of, 281 



Caught on Nests, 198 



Difficulties of Photographing at Night- 

 time, 247 



Different Species sharing Nest, 194 



Eggs and Young, Protection of, 207 



Enemies of, 207 



Exchanging, 207 



How Laid, 205 



Show of, in Windows at St. Kilda, 12 



Sharing, at St. Kilda, 53 



Experimenting with, on Wire Perches, 232 



Extravagance of, 192 



Feeding their Young, 214, 216, 229 



Frightened of a Camera, 354 



Great Flights of, 284 



Numbers of, at Borrera, 75-76 



Helping them to build their Nests, etc., 



216 



| Birds, How prevented from falling off Peruh 

 when asleep, 231 



,, the Presence of Brooding Game, 



may be known, 198 



they are called, 278 



they keep warm whilst sleeping, 



232 



they sit on their Nests, 198 



Love of an old Breeding Haunt, 138 



Male, that feed their Mates, 202 



Migration of, 289 



Nests, Eggs, and Young of, 183 



,, near London, 222 



Photographing in High Hedges, 



352 



Nets used for catching, 276 



Not so particular as supposed about 



Nests and Eggs, 206 



of Prey, Gamekeepers on killing, 142 



on Brighton Downs, 274 



Photographing in the Snow, 355 



Predominating Sex in, 241 



Protection of Young, by Harmonisation 



210 



Sanitary Arrangements of, 218 



Seen at St. Kilda, 57 



Singing at Night, 246 



Sleeping habits of, 233-235, 245, 246 



together, 239 



Stealing each others' Nests, 189 



Trapping, 290 



Unwearying Devotion of, 196 



Vast Multitude of, 122 



Watching Shy, 212 



When they retire to sleep, 245 



Where they go to die, 234 



sleep, 231 



Wings on Midden Heaps, 12 



Young, killed by Rooks, 146 



Blackbird, Curious Eggs of a, 205 

 Blackbirds feeding their Young, 213 



Nests well and badly hidden, 188 



Peculiar Positions of Nests of, 



264 



Where they sleep, 234 



Boat, Curious Old Method of landing from, 



123 

 Dangerous leap into, 121 



Difficulties of hiring a, 320 



Hauling, Curious Custom of, 43 



Keels wearing Grooves in Rocks, 44 



Race, St. Kilda as a Prize for, 16 



Boats lowered, 131 



Photographing from, 350 



Bonnet, Highland Woman's, 321 



Boots, How a Highland Woman wears her, 



321 

 Borrera, Difficulties of landing on, 76, 77 



Excursion to, 75 



Scaling the Cliffs of, 78 



Sheep killed on, 87 



Stone Lamp on, 81 



Underground Dwellings on, 81, 82 



Breakfasting off Guillemots' Eggs, 323 



