CONTENTS. xxiii 



CHAPTER VII. 



Another Osprey's Nest ; Variety of Eggs — Golden Eagle ; 

 Manner of Hunting ; decrease of — Egg Collectors — Mr. 

 Hancock's Collection — Nests of Eagles ; Animals killed by — 

 The Mountain Hare — Fishing of Osprey . Page 105 



CHAPTER VIII. 



County of Sutherland ; Variety of Climate and Soil — List of 

 Birds ; of Hawks ; Owls ; of the smaller Land Birds ; of the 

 Crow Tribe ; Pigeons, etc 117 



CHAPTER IX. 



List continued — Game Birds ; Destruction of by Shepherds — 

 Plovers — Sandpipers and Snipes, etc. — Water- fowl ; Swans, 

 Geese, varieties of Ducks, Grebes, Terns, Gulls, etc. — De- 

 crease of many kinds of birds — Egg-dealers . . 133 



CHAPTER X. 



Deer-hounds — Deer-forest in Sutherlandshire — Effect of the 

 Forests on Deer — The Stag casting his Horns — Hinds and 

 Calves — Courage of the Hind — Poaching Shepherds — Value 

 of Horns — Fighting of Stags — Highland Forester — Breed of 

 Deer-hounds 144 



CHAPTER XL 



Agriculture in Sutherlandshire — Facilities of reaching the 

 County — Caledonian Canal — Travelling in Sutherland — 

 Inns, excellent management of — Lairg — Tongue — Durness 

 — Scowrie — Inchnadamph — Inveran — Conclusion of 

 Sutherlandshire . . . . . . • 159 



