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INDEX. 



Guillemot, Common, How caught by Night, 92 



Round Borrera, 76 



Gull, Lesser Black Back, swallowing Young 



Eiders, 262 

 Gulls, Black-headed, at Scoulton Mere, 272 



Curious Position of a Great Black 



Back's Nest, 2 

 Great Black Back, and Prey, 59 



at St. Kilda, 58, 100 



Gulls, Herring feeding, 101 



Met with in Hebrides, 272 



Robbing Terns, 258 



Stealing Fish from Cormorants, 250 



Where they sleep, 242 



Gymnastic Feat, A Good, 356 



Habits, Breeding, of Fulmar Petrel, 60 



Rabbits, 1V7 



Starlings, 184 



Change of, in Ring-Ouzels, 292 



Curious, of Hares, 176 



of Blue Tit, 224 



Hedgehogs, 146 



Marsh Tits, 220 



Peewit, 212 



Plovers, etc., 210 



Spotted Flycatcher, 224 



Peculiar, of Shelduck, 264 



Hair Rope, 124 



Hammock, A Fall from, 9 

 Hare, Childlike Cry of, 17* 



How netted, 174, 175 



Netting, 173 



Poached, for Sale, 172 



Shot by Moonlight, 176 



Trying to Trap, 177 



Hares, Curious Habits of, 176 



Love of Parsley, 177 



Harmonisation of Birds' Eggs and Young with 



Surroundings, 207, 210 

 Haunted Room, Sleeping in, 332 

 Hawks and Gamekeepers, 141, 142 

 Head-dress of St. Kilda Women, 2 

 Hearthrug used as a Shawl, 22 

 Hebrides, Gulls met with in, 272 

 Hedgehogs, Habits of, 146 

 Heron considered a Witch at St. Kilda, 128 



Rook stealing Sticks from, 190 



Highland Boat, Passengers on, 311 

 . Peat-Diggers, 319 



Woman's Boots and Bonnet, 321 



Workmen and their Master, 313, 314 



Highlanders, Heartfelt Prayers of, 320 

 Highlands, Teetotalers' difficulties in, 318 

 Home, Love of, 49 



Horsehair Rope, 124 

 Horticulturists, A Hard Nut for, 24 

 House, Highest Inhabited, in Yorkshire, 327 



Strong Man's, in St. Kilda, 82 



Humorous Incident, 342 



Humouring an Old Man in Power, 314 



Hybrids, 285 



Identity, Two Peculiar Cases of Mistaken, 42 

 Illumination, History of, at St. Kilda, 23 

 Incident, Humorous, 342 

 Inn, Highest, in England, 327 

 Insects, Photographing, 359 

 Instinct in Animals, 238 

 Intelligence, Difficulties of obtaining Up-to- 

 date, 326 



Rewarded, 133 



Intoxication mistaken for Death, 35 

 Irish Skipper, Hospitality of, 50 

 Isolation of St. Kilda, 28 



Jackdaws as Egg-Stealers, 257 

 Jay feeding her Young, 224 

 Jay's Nest, 224 

 "Jug," How Partridges, 170 



Kestrel, Destructiveness of, 142 

 - Laziness of, 192 



Kestrel's Eggs in Raven's Old Nest, 193 

 Kingfisher, How it captures its Prey, 356 

 Photographing, 355 



Kittiwakes at Fame Islands, 264 



Dead, 3 



on their Nests, 98 



Rising of, 100 



Where they sleep, 242 



Ladies, Bravery of, 132 

 Lady Grange's Exile, 28 

 Landlord, A Merry Old, 327 

 Lamp, Stone, still used, 14, 23 



on Borrera 81 



Larks decreasing in Scotland, 284 



Great Slaughter of, 284 



How caught by Night, 286 



Vast Flocks of, 284 



Lead-mine, Using an Old, as a Charging Bag, 



358 



Leap, A Dangerous, 87, 121 

 Letters from St. Kilda, 29 

 Light, Cost of, at St. Kilda, 54 



Night at St. Kilda, 100 



Liquor, Limited Consumption of, 327 

 Locks, Curious Wooden, 12 

 London "a grand spot," 328 



Birds' Nests near, 222 



Lome, Bird-life in the Firth of, 321 



" Lover's Stone," St. Kilda, 37 



Lunatic, Threatened by a, 99 



Lunch, A Dry, 321 



Lure Birds, How tethered and how they 



work, 280 



Macgillivray's Observations on the Fulmar 



Petrel, 116 



Mackenzie's Equanimity, 26 

 Mailboat, St. Kilda, 28 

 Malady, An Old, 33 



McQuien, Finlay, inquires about London, 82 

 Markets for Cage-birds, 286 

 Marriages, Early, at St. Kilda, 37 

 Marsh Tits, How they feed their Young, 220 

 Martin's First Experience of Gannets, 88 



Fulmar Petrel, 116, 119 



Curious Breeches Story, 123 



Martins, House, Nests, 188 



Late Stay of, 274 



Sand, Nests, 188 



Meeting, A Farewell, 128 



Men, Clever or Cowardly, 132 



Merlin's Nest, 141 



Message from the Sea, 5 



Mice utilising Old Birds' Nests, 192 



Migration of Birds, 289, 292 



Milking a Highland Cow on board ship, 311 



Minister and Medicine Man, 33 



Ministers as Promise-Breakers, 324 



Mistaken Identity, 42 



Mistakes of Decoy-men, 305 



Moorhen, Curious Accident to, 228 



Spare Nest of, 186 



Mortality amongst Babes at St. Kilda. 33 



,, Sea-Birds, 258 



Moth, Photographing a, 247 



Motor Cars, First Run to Brighton of, 275 

 Music of the Bagpipes, 37 



of St. Kildans, 36 



Natural History, Increasing Interest in, 194 



Nature, How to study, 334 



Negatives Rush to save, 131 



Nerves, Effect of Danger on, 98 



Nest, Accident to a Bird whilst building, 184 



Birds sharing a, 194 



Building of Solan Geese, 266 



Common Wren's, 184, 186 



