INDEX. 



367 



8t. Kilda, Market Day, 26 



Married state distinguished by 



Peculiar Head-dress, 22 



Meeting of Past and Present, 23 



Men, 10 



,, make Women's Clothes, 18 



Method of catching Sheep, 40 



Milking Ewes, 19 



Mortality amongst Babes, 33 



Origin of People of, 18 



Parliament of, 53 



Parting with Natives of, 129 



Pastures on Sea-Cliffs, 41 



Petrels breeding, 244 



Physical Degeneracy of People of, 32 



Piety of People of, il 



Population of, 32 



Queen of, 51 



Ravages of Smallpox, 34 



Eelics, 53 



Rough Seas, 43 



Sale of Sea-Birds' Eggs, 8 ' 



Seals at, 48 



Seeming Indifference of Inhabitants 



to Arrival of Strangers, 6 

 Sharing Profit of Boat, 53 



Birds' Eggs, 53 



Sharks, 48 



Signs of Modernity, 22 



Steepness of Rocks, 66 



Stock of Cattle and Sheep, 38 



Stone Lamp still in use, 14 



" Stranger's cold," 33 



Sunday, 9 



Swallow, 57 



Taste for Sweets, 35 



The only inhabited part of the 



British Isles unsurveyed, 36 



Tree Sparrows, 58 



Underground Dwelling, 13 



Viking Spearhead found, 13 



. Watchfulness of Inhabitants of, 38 



Water-Supply, 42 



Wedding Rings unknown, 22 



Whimbrel caught at, 57 



Why the Temperature of the Sea is 



lower in Summer than Winter, 24 



Woman's Skirt fastened with a 



French Nail, 18 



Women do Hard Work, 8 ; do Men's 



Work, 18; leave Church 

 before Men, 10 



Suspicion of, 26 



Wren, 70; Eggs of, 72,; How it 



differs from Mainland Species, 71 ; 

 Nest of, 71 



Sabbath, Snaring Grouse on, 158 

 Sale, Offering the Illustrator for, 49 

 Sal tee Islands, Puffins at, 272 

 Samson Post Trap, 144 

 Sanitary Arrangements of Birds, 218 



Sassenach, Dread of the, 38 



Scaring a Cragsman, 324 



Scent retained by Breeding Game Birds, 166 



Scot, A very Cautious, 320 



Scotland, Larks decreasing in, 284 



Scottish Gamekeepers' Sorrow and Scorn, 140 



Scoulton Mere, Gulls at, 272 



Scriptures, Photographer's Ignorance of, 140 



Sea, A Message from the, 5 



Sea-birds and their Haunts, 248 



Mortality amongst, 258 



Seals on Hiasker Islands, 3 



Visits of, to St. Kilda, 48 



Season for taking Wild Duck, 304 

 Secret of Field-work, 354 

 Sensations of Cliff-climbing, 56 



of Descending a Cliff. 341 



Nest, 88 



Photographing Young, 104 



Shags, Whale rising under a Flock of, 315 

 Shakespeare and the Bagpipes in England, 37 

 Sharks at St. Kilda, 48 

 Shearwater, Manx, Nesting Hole of, 66 

 Sheep at Half-a-crown each, 41 



Curious Breed of, 39 



Cutting Wool of, with Knives, 41 



Killed on Borrera, 87 



Lowered to browse on Ledges of Cliffs, 



41 



Method of catching, 40 



Remarkable fecundity of, 41 



Stock of, at St. Kilda, 38 



Shelduck, Finding the Nest of, 316 



Peculiar Habit of, 264 



Shipwrecked Spaniards, 5 

 Shooting Grouse, 164 

 Shopping at St. Kilda, 26 



Shrike, Photographing, on her Nest, 200 

 Signalling, Peculiar Manner of, for Help, 84 

 Sitting up for Photographs, 316 

 Skua, Richardson's, Hunting for the Nest of, 



319 



Sleep, Birds that require Little, 246 

 Sleeping Birds, how they keep warm, 232 



Perches, 232 



Habits and haunts of Blackbirds. 



234 ; Cuckoo, 240 ; Fieldfares, 247 ; 

 Great Black-backed Gulls, 242 ; Gulls, 

 242; Hedgesparrows, 234; Kittiwakes, 

 242 ; Nightjar, 245 ; Owls, 244 ; Petrels, 

 244 ; Pheasants, 240, 247 ; Ravens, 240 ; 

 Robins, 234 ; Starlings, 235 ; Swallows, 

 239 ; Terns, 242 ; Tits, 238 ; Wild Duck, 

 241 



Smallpox, Ravages of, at St. Kilda, 34 

 Smell, Sense of, in Fulmar Petrel, 62 

 Smuggling in East Anglia, 310 

 Snare that saved a Man's Life, 112 

 Snow, Photographing Birds in the, 355 

 Soa, An Awkward Island to land on, 106 



Curious Breed of Sheep on, 39 



Great Number of Puffins on, 102, 113 



Prospects of a compulsory stay on, 120 



Rough Seas round, 121 



Soaring of Solan Geese, 268 



Solan Geese building their Nests, 88 



How caught while asleep, 90, 92 



Language of, 92 



Martin's first Experience of, 88 



Number killed at St. Kilda, 90 



on Bass Rock, 265-266 



on Stack Lee, 76, 93 



on the Wing, 94 



Return to Summer Quarters, 90 



Roguery of, 88, 266 



Sentinels to Warn, 92 



Soaring of, 268 



Tameness of, 266 

 Goose, Curious Accident to, 93 



. Finds in the Nest of, 93 



Soldiers' Pillows, Fulmars' Feathers in. 119 

 Song of Thrush in Early Morning, 133 

 Sparrow-hawk and Live Birds, 285 



Prey, 202 



Sparrow-hawk's Devotion, 202 

 Sparrows, House, Change of Sleeping Quarters, 

 238 



Clutch of Eggs of, 202 



Destroying each other's 



Eggs, 189 



Eggs of, 204 



Examining, in their Sleep- 

 ing Quarters, 238 



Make Sleeping Quarters, 236 



Nests stolen by Starlings, 

 190 



Sexes of, 241 



Sleep in Old Nests and 

 Nesting-Box, 235 



