INDEX. 



Dunlins at St. Kilda, 59 ; feeding, 60 

 Dwellings, Underground, at St. Kilda, 13 ; on 

 Borrera, 82 



Eagle, Golden, Shyness of, 138 

 Earthenware, Fragments of Old, 14 

 Egg, Colour of Common Guillemot's, 106 



Sea Birds that lay only One, 120 



JRtealers, Jackdaws as, 257 



Eggs, Clutches of Eider Ducks', 260 



Coloration, 204 



Destruction of, 189 



Distribution of Heat over, 206 



Enemies of, 207 



. Exchanging, 207 



Fastidiousness of Plovers in regard to 



the Position of, 206 



Great Numbers gathered at St. Kilda, 



119 



Gulls', collected at Scoulton Mere, 273 



How Birds lay, 205 



Large Clutches of Terns', 254 



of Eider Ducks, 73 



of Wrens, 72 



Osprey's, 194 



Painted, 204 



Pheasants', 164 



Variation in Colour of, 166 



Protection of, by Harmonisation of 



Colour, 207, 254 



Stolen by Rooks, 146 



Tree Sparrow's, 204 



Eider Ducks at St Kilda, 128 



Eggs of, 73 



" Eight-Day Sickness " at St. Kilda, 33 

 Embarkation, Difficulties of. at St. Kilda, 63 

 Escape, Narrow, 104 

 Etiquette at St. Kilda, 27 



Falcon (see Peregrine) 



Falling into a Shaft Full of Water, 358 



Farewell Meeting, A, 128 



Fame Islands and Robert Darling, 330 



Cormorants at, 248 



Eider Ducks at, 258 



Guillemots at, 264 



in a Rough Sea off the, 333 



Kittiwakes at, 264 



Rabbits on, 332 



Terns breeding at, 250 



Feat, A Good Gymnastic, 356 



Feathers, How disposed during Sleep, 232 



. from St. Kilda for Soldiers' Pillows, 



119 



Fecundity of Rabbits, 180 

 Feet, Large, of Young Razorbill, 105 

 Ferrets killing each other, 182 

 Fergusson descends a Fearful Precipice, 86 

 Field Work, Secret of, 354 

 Fieldfares, Where they sleep, 247 

 Fight between a Pair of Black Guillemots, 



61 



Fire-penny Tax at St. Kilda, 54 

 Fish, A Big Catch of, 67, 68, 99 



for Bait, 99 



Stolen from Cormorants by Gulls, 250 



Fleas on a Rabbit, 181 



Flight Netting, How it is managed, 284 



Flights, Great Winter, 284 



Flycatcher, Spotted, Habits of, 224 



Flycatcher's, Spotted, Nest, 223 ; in a Bullet- 

 Hole, 196 



Fog, Steaming in a, 130 



Food-supply of St. Kildans compared with 

 that of Hebridean Crofters, 9 



Forked-tailed Petrels' Nests, 64, 78 



. ,, Squirting Oil, 80 



Fowler, Sad Fate of, 118 



Fowling, An Exhibition of, 64 



Ropes, 124 



Fowls, Domestic, Small Esteem for, at St 



Kilda, 48 

 Fox, Cunning of, 156 



Fate of a Trapped, 154 



Trap, A Curious, 153, 154 



Friends, Parting with, 129 

 Fright, A Great, 173 

 Fuel used at St. Kilda, 46 

 Fulmar Petrel, Breeding habits of, 116, 118 

 Catch of, on Borrera, 84 



Curious Differences of Opinion 

 of the Value of, 118 



Egg of, 62 



Feathers from, 119 



Flight of, 3 



Habits of, 60 



Macgillivray's Observations 

 on, 116 



Oil from, 119 

 Smell of, 12, 119 



Photographing, 108, 115 



Quantity of Oil from, 119 



Sense of Smell of, 62 



Sighting First, 3 



Stalking, 108 



Gamekeeper, A much scarred, 170 



An Essex, 328 



The Humour of a, 177 



Gamekeepers and Hawks, 141, 142 



Characteristics of. 135 



Dangers of, 330 



Duties of, 150 



Hard Life of, 168 



Method of killing Ravens, 241 



on killing Birds of Prey, 142 



Gannets on Stack Lee, 76 



' Plunging, 3 (see also Solan Geese) 



Geese, Wild, Finding a Brood of, 318 



Generosity of St. Kildans, 52 



Gillie's Courage, A, 318 



Gnats, Punished by, 226 



Gold, Contemning, 51 



Goose, Bell hung to the Neck of, 156 



Grace Darling's Bible, 332 



Graveyard at St. Kilda, 44 



Greed of St. Kildans, 49 



Ground on which Cage-birds are caught, 286 



Grouse, A Close Sitter, 150, 198 



Alarm Notes of, 162 



Becking for, 160 



Curious Habits of, 162 



., Position of the Nest of a, 150 



of, stolen by Rooks, 146 

 of Starvation on, 163 



Fascinations of Driving, 148 



Harm done to, by Farmers' Cats, 152 



How poached, 156, 160 



Method of calling, 160 



Netting, 157 



Notes of, 160 



Only Bird Indigenous to British Isles 



148 



Roosting in Trees, 164 



Shooting, 164 



Sitting long and close on Nest, 198 



Snaring, 156, 158 



Starved to Death, 164 



Talkativeness of, 162 



Weight of, 164 



Gulf Stream, Bountifulness of, 46 



Fetches a disappointment to 



St. Kilda, 47 



Guillemot, Black, Notes of, Fighting, etc., 61 

 Common, at Fame Islands, 264 



Breakfasting off Eggs of, 



323 



Clever Capture of, 108 



Colour of Eggs of, 106 



