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INDEX. 



Breeches, Strange Story of a Pair of, 123 

 Brighton as a starting and arriving Place 



for Migratory Birds, 289 

 Downs, Bird-life on, 285 



,, Cage-Birds on, 274 



First Ktm of Motor Cars to, 275 



When Migratory Birds arrive at, in 



the Spring, 292 



Brooches, Peculiar, at St. Kilda, 19 

 Bullet-hole, Spotted Flycatcher's Nest in, 196 

 Bullfinches, Close Sitters, 200 



How they are caught, 285 



Burrows, or " Nests," of Rabbits, 180 



Petrels, 244 



Habits of, 148 



How Trapped, 148 



Cage Birds, Big Catches of, 281 

 Calling, 278 



How they are caught, 274 

 Ground on which caught, 286 

 on Brighton Downs, 274 

 Where they are sold, 286 



for receiving Newly-Caught Birds, 282 



Call Birds, Value of, 281 



Notes of Birds, 281 



Calling Cage Birds, 278 



Grouse, 160 



Partridges, 171 



Camera and Photographer falling into a Pond, 

 358 



Birds frightened of a, 354 



Cats, Chance spoilt by, 101 



Destructiveness of, 152 



How trapped, 152 



Ingenious Trap for, 153 



Cattle, Stock of, at St. Kilda, 38 



Cave, Bird-haunted, 314 



Chaffinch, Abnormal Blue Eggs of, 205 



Curious behaviour of, 199 



Devotion of, 199 



Remarkable Accident to, 184 



Song of, 289 



Chaffinches, Character of Nests of, 183 



How they are caught, 288 



Nest decorated with Bits of News- 

 paper, 184 



Simultaneous Nest-Building of, 184 



Where they Sleep, 234 



Chanticleer, Frostbitten, 233 



Characteristics of Gamekeepers, 135 



Charging Bag, Using an Old Lead Mine as, 358 



Cheese, St. Kilda, 39 



Chiffcliaff, Helping, to Feed her Young, 220 



How She fed her Young, 216 



Child's Life saved by a Homer Pigeon, 324 



Cleits of St. Kilda, 46 



Cliff-climbers, St. Kildans as, 57 



Climbing, Sensations of, 56 



How to descend, 338 



Important Points in regard to descend- 

 ing, 340 



Photography, Dangers of, 341 



,, How it is Managed, 341 



Sensations of descending, 341 



Terrible Fall from, 126 



Cliffs of Borrera, Scaling the, 78 



Climb, Difficult, 108 



Hazardous, 323 



Stiff and Dangerous, 87 



Stiffest and Most Dangerous, in St. 



Kilda, 124 



Climbing Accidents, 124 



Clipping Shears unknown in St. Kilda, 41 



Clock Chiming, Man who could not under- 

 stand, 327 



Collection Boxes, Curious, at St. Kilda, 10 



Coloration, Protective, Value of, 252 



Puzzle about, 254 



Commonwealth of St. Kilda, 53 



Complexion of St. Kildans, 48 



Cormorant, Stalking, 249 



Cormorants at Fame Islands, 248 



Lesser Black-backed Gulls stealing 



Fish from, 250 



Poisonousness of Excreta of, 249 



Swimming to a Rock for a Photo- 

 graph of, 348-350 



Courage, The Evaporation of a Gillie's, 318 



Cow, Milking, Aboard Ship, 311 



Crow, Carrion, Nesting Site of, 344 



Grey, Killing, 101 



Crows, Carrion, frightened by Jubilee Beacon 

 Fires, 234 



Crusoe, Modern, 134 



Cuckoo considered a Messenger of Death at 

 St. Kilda, 128 



Curious Sleeping Quarters of, 240 



Early Morning Cry of, 133 



Cuckoos, How they put their Eggs in other 

 Birds' Nests, 26 



Curlew, Instincts of, 210 



Powerful Notes of, 212 



Danger, Curious Effect of, 98 

 Dangers of Cliff Photography, 341 



Photographing in Trees, 348 



Darling, Robert, and the Fame Islands, 330 

 Death Dirge, Singing a, 34 



Cuckoo considered a Messenger of, 128 



Degeneracy, Physical, of Man, 32 



Debate, Heated, 120 



Decoy Pipe, Description of, 296, etc. 



How cleared of Ice, 304 



Decoying, Art of, 295 



Essentials of Successful, 296 



How it is done, 305 



Decoyman and his Dog at work, 308 



Good-natured, 309 



Slaying his Captives, 309 



Decoyman's Dog, 296 



Notions, 309 



Decoymen, Mistakes made by, 305 

 Descending a Cliff, Important Points in regard 



to, 340 



,, Sensations of, 341 



Descent, Dangerous and Difficult, 120 

 Devotion of Birds, 196 



Chaffinch, 199 



,, Sparrow-hawk, 202 



,, Tree-creeper, 199 



Dignity of St. Kildans, 51 

 Disciplinarian, Strict, 330 

 Dishonesty of Birds, 189 

 Diver, Great Northern, 24 



Red-throated, on Nest, 318 



Diving into a Boat, 121 



Dog, Decoyman's, 296 



Favourite, 157 



Good Chance spoilt by, 108 



Swallowing Frogs, 152 



Temper of, 158 



Dogs, Mischief wrought by, 152 



of St. Kilda, 6 



Doon and St. Kilda, 60 



Caves under, 98 



Down used in Lining Ducks' Nests, 260 



Drink, Big, 43 



Drowning, Narrow Escape from, 96 



Duck Decoy, the First, constructed in 



England, 295 



Worked under Difficulties, 295 

 Ducks, Clutches of Eggs of, 260 

 Eider, at Fame Islands, 258 



Lure, 296 ; how fed, 304 



Nests, Down employed in lining of, 



260 



Young Eider, Hardihood of, 261 ; how 



they breast big Seas, 262 ; swallowed 

 by Lesser Black-backed Gull, 262 



