CONTENTS. 



A SHORT TOUR IN SUTHERLAND. 



CHAPTER I. 



Sutherlandshire ; its Wild -birds not sufficiently known — Our 

 Start and Conveyance — Kyle of Sutherland — Woods of 

 Rosehall ; old Keeper there ; his recollection of me — Oykel 

 Inn — Altnagalcanach ; Origin of Name ; Fishing at — Con- 

 veying Boat to Loch Urigil — Wild-geese and Divers on the 

 Loch — Large Trout of these Lakes — Drive to Inehnadamph 

 — Value of rare Eggs — Heronry — Peregrine Falcon and 

 Buzzards' Nests — Climbing over the Rocks . Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Inn at Inehnadamph — Liberal System of the Duke of Suther- 

 land — Facility of Travelling — Beauty of Country — Loch 

 Assynt — Nest of Osprey — Large Spring of Water — Water- 

 ousel — Dense Mist — Wild Country near Kylesku — Coun- 

 try between Kylesku and Scowrie — Nest of Osprey ; curious 

 position of — Eagle 18 



CHAPTER III. 



I mi at Scowrie — Another Osprey's Nest — The old Ospreys — 

 Eggs of— The River Laxford — Inn of Rhiconnich — Drive to 

 Durness — Beauty of Scenery — Drive round Loch Emboli — 



