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INDEX. 



Sparrows, House, steal Martins' Nests, 189 



Tree, hawking for Flies at St. Kilda, 



68 



How to distinguish, 202 



White Eggs of, 204 



Spider's Web said to have caught Golden- 

 crested Wren, 358 



Strength of, 359 



Sport with the Fishing Line, 67, 68 

 Stalking a Cormorant, 249 

 Starlings, Breeding Habits of, 184 



How they are caught, 276, 277 



Bear a Brood in a Rose-tree, 190 



Singing by Night, 235 



Stealing Sparrows' Nests, 190 



Where they sleep, 235 



Steamer on the Rocks, 130 



" Stranger's Cold" at St. Kilda, 33 

 Strategy, A Piece of Successful, 315 

 Strawberry-growing in High Latitudes, 24 

 Suspended in Mid-Air, 112 

 Swallow at St. Kilda, 57 



High Situation of Nest of, 328 



Swallows, Fully-fledged, roosting in Old 

 Nest, 240 



Photographing, by Flashlight, 240 



,, on a Telegraph 



Wire, 350 

 Sweets for St. Kildans, 1 



Taste for, at St. Kilda, 35 



Swimming a Lost Art at St. Kilda, 23 



to a Rock for a Photograph of 



Connorants, 348 



Teetotalers, Difficulties of, in Highlands, 318 

 Telegraph Wire, Photographing Swallows on, 



350 



Temperateness of St. Kildans, 35 

 Tern, An Angry, 256 



Roseate, at Fame Islands, 256 



Terns and Protective Coloration, 254 



Clutches of Eggs of, 254 



Defencelessness of, 257 



Fishing for Prey, 256 



Harmonisation of Young, with Sur- 



rounding Objects, 252 



Strange Conduct of, 250, 256: 



Wakefulness of, 242 



Where they breed, 250 



Young, Variation of Colour of, 252 



Testing Strength of a Spider's Web, 35Q 

 Thirsts, Noble and Ignoble, 322 

 Thrash, Early Morning Song of, 133 

 Thrushes, Where they sleep, 234 

 Young, 229 



Timber bored by Teredos, 47 



Washed on St. Kilda by Gulf Stream. 



46 



Tit, Blue, Nest of, 223 

 Tits, Habits of, 224 



Curious Nesting-Places of, 196 



Sleeping Quarters of, 238 



Tobacco for St. Kildans, 1 

 Tourists, Behaviour of, 51 

 Tragedy at St. Kilda, 54 

 Trap, Cat, 153 



Curious Fox, 153, 154 



Figure-of-Four, 144 



Trapping Cats, 152 



Nightingales, 290 



Stoats, 143, 144 



Tree Creeper, Devotion of a, 199 



Hollow tenanted by Jackdaws and 



Bees, 193 



Trees, Dangers and Difficulties of Photograph- 

 ing Nests in, 344, 346, 348 



Trees, Grouse roosting in, 164 



Turf, Burning, used by Decoy-men, 305 



Underground Dwelling at St. Kilda, 13 ; on 



Borrera, 82 

 Ulysses, A Modern, 130 



Vermin, Bait for, 146 



Viking Spearhead found at St. Kilda, 13 



Village Bay, Curious Effect of Wind in, 95 



Dangers of, 95 



Narrow Escape in, 96 



Storm in, 96 



Vole, Water, Photographing, 354 



Wagtail, Pied, Curious Nesting-Place of, 196, 



. 22S 



'- Gray, Photographing, 200 



Water, Falling into a Shaft full of, 358 



Photographing in, 352 



Supply at St. Kilda, 43 



Waterhen (see Moorhen) 

 Waves, Effect of, on Passengers, 3 

 Magnificence of, 122 



Weather suitable for calling Grouse, 162 



Weather- Wisdom of a Hebridean, 2 



Wedding Rings unknown at St. Kilda, 22 



Whale and Shags, 315 . 



Jawbone of, 46 



Oil from a Dead, 46 



Wheatear, Early Rising of, 100 



Whimbrel caught at St. Kilda, 57 



Whistle, Steam, Effect of, 6 



Widows, How cared for at St. Kilda, 53 



Wild Duck, Behaviour of, in a Decoy Pipe, 308 

 Big Catch of, 295 

 Following Decoy-man's Dog, 308 

 Photographing, 358 

 Powers of Scent, 305 

 Season for taking, 304 

 Seen from a Decoy Pipe, 306 

 , Where and when they sleep, 241 



Wind, Curious Effect of, 95 



Woman's Esteem, Winning a, 313 



Skirt fastened with a French Nail 



18 



Women leave Church before Men at St. 

 Kilda, 10 



of St. Kilda, Suspicion of, 26 



Wool cut off Sheep with Knives, 41 



Wreck, A Narrow Escape from, 130-133 



Wren, Common, Asleep, 232 



" Cocks," Nests of, 186 

 Materials of Nest-building, 



Nest of, 184 



Positions of Nest of, 186 



Stealing Nesting Materials, 



190 

 Golden-crested, said to have been 



caught by Spider's Web, 358 

 St Kilda, on Soa, 114 



,, How it Differs from Main- 

 land Species, 71 



Nest of, 71 



Photographing a, 74 



Young', 72, 73 



Wood, Nest ef, 223 



Yellow-hammer, Alarm Note of, 234 



Sleeping Quarters of, 234 



Yorkshire, Highest Inhabited House in 327 

 Yorkshireman's Dry Humour, 328 



" Grand Day," 319 



Queer Notions of London, 328 



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