X CONTENTS. 



I 



GAME-DEALERS. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Poulterers' Shops — Supply of Game — Red-deer — Deer killed 

 in the Fields — Roe — Grouse and Black Game ; calling of — 

 Shooting Hares hy night — Pheasants — Advantages attending 

 the sale of Game by the fair Sportsman and the Landed Pro- 

 prietor — American Game — Wild -fowl in Shops — Bird- 

 dealers in Leadenhall Market — Norway Game — Manner of 

 collecting — Hybrids — introduction of new species of Game 

 into Britain — Prolific Birds — Sea-fowl ; their breeding-places 

 — Solan Geese — Migration of Fish . . . Page 257 



FISHERIES. 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Supply of Fish in Scotland — Herring - fishery — Highlanders 

 coming to Herring-fishing — Fishermen of East Coast — Dif- 

 ference of Language in Nairn — Departure of Herring-boats ; 

 dangers to which they are exposed — Loss of Boats and Lives 

 — Fishing in good weather — Loch fishing — Fishing Stations 

 on West Coast — Fishing for Haddocks, etc. — State of British 

 Sea-fisheries . 272 



APPENDIX 289 



LIST OF PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Searching for Wild-fowl Eggs 

 Entrance to Bay of Cromarty 

 Dead Stag and Eagles 



Roebuck 



Return from Shooting 



Frontispiece. 



To face page 17 



77 



117 



185 



