XXIV CONTENTS. 



FIELD-NOTES FOE THE YEAE 

 CHAPTER XII. 



JANUARY. 



Wood - pigeons — Feeding of Widgeon and Mallards — Wild - 

 fowl— Water-rail— Wild-duck Shooting — Change of colour 

 in Trout . p age 169 



CHAPTER XIII. 



FEBRUARY. 



Change of colour in Stoats— Affection of Otters for their young 

 — Roe-hunting— Attachment of Birds to their Mates— Food 

 of Fieldfares during Snow — Widgeon — Wild-fowl shooting 

 at Spynie— Incidents in Shooting— Winged Swan— Cats- 

 Food of Wild-geese — Brent Goose . . . 178 



CHAPTER XIV. 



MARCH. 



Wild-swans — Loch of Spynie; Wild-fowl on it— Pochard- 

 Carrion Crows — Death of Wild -swan — Domestication of 

 Wil d- fowl ; flavour of— Arrival of Geese . . . 193 



CHAPTER XV. 



APRIL. 



Field-mice — Brent Geese— Arrival of Migratory Birds— In- 

 stinct of Crows in Feeding— Instinct , of Thrushes— Disap- 

 pointments in Shooting Wild-geese— Death of White-fronted 

 Geese— Shetland Pony— Heronry— Anecdote of Roehuck— 

 Wild-duck's Nest 205 



