INDEX 



273 



Pope's Odyssey, quoted, 209 

 Port Lotha, 90, 92 

 Port Mor, 88 

 Prawn as bait, 141 

 Prawning, 40-1 

 Primroses, 103 

 Ptarmigan, 190 

 Puffins, 54 



RABBITS, 61, 63, 77, 252 



on the Machrins golf links, 91-2 

 Ranunculus, 189 

 Rats, 63 



Rauma river, 120 et seq. 

 Ravens, 55, 92, 107 

 Razor-bills, 54 



Red-breasted phalarope, 47-8 

 Redshank, 49, 66 

 Red-throated diver, 203 

 Reindeer, 189, 204, 206 

 Reindeer-moss, 189 

 Rhododendrons, 237 

 Richardson's skua, 51 

 Road Pool, 216 

 Roche Abbey, 232 

 Rocketing pheasants, 236, 237, 243 

 Roe, 5, 6, 8, 233, 236, 238, 239 

 Romsdal valley, 116, 119 

 Rooks, 56-8 

 Ross, Edward, 10 

 Ryper, 166, 204 



snare, 206 



SALMON fishing, 4, 8, 12 note, 120 

 et seq., 129, 141, 148-53, 169, 

 178, 260 



author's first, 113, 115, 120 et seq. 



dying salmon, the, 149-51 



traps for, 164 

 Sandeman, Mr., 140 

 Sargent, Mr., 140 

 Sark, 100 et seq. 



an artist's hunting-ground, 107 



Autelets, les, 102, 107 



caves, 105-7 



climate, 104 



Crustacea, 104 



flora of, 103 



Gouliot cave, 105, 106 



harbours, 108-9 



molluscs, 104 



natural bridge, 109 



octopods, 104 



Seigneur of, the, 111 



silver-mines, 109 



zoophytes, 105, 106 

 Scalasaig, 27-8, 37 



Scotland, winter shooting in, 229 

 Sea-fishing, 29, 89, 168, 218 

 Sea pie (oyster-catcher), 49, 50 

 Sea trout, 125, 129, 132, 141, 149, 



152, 168, 176-80 passim, 218, 



222 



a hunted fish, 218 



cooking, 151 



Seals in Colonsay, 27, 33-4, 63 et seq., 

 89, 92, 93 



breathing of, 72 



colour and appearance, 65, 66, 67, 



69, 89 



diving powers, 71-2 



feeding on duck, instance of, 68, 



72-3 



food of, 72 



fore-flippers of, 70 



great grey seal (Halechoerus gry- 



phus), 63, 68, 69, 73-4 



habits, 67, 69 et seq. 



Harp seal, 72 



melanism in, 68 



notes on, 69 et seq. 



parasites in, as to, 70 



size of male and female, 74 



stalking, 64, 71, 77-82 

 best time for, 75 



difficulties of conveying the 



quarry, 82-3 



stipulations as to, in shooting 



lease, 63 



weight, 74 



young, 68, 74 

 Sedge fly, 265 

 Seigneur of Sark, the, 111 

 Sgoltaire, Loch, 25 

 Sheldrakes, 47, 77, 94 

 Sils Lake, Engadine, 222 

 Sivert, 193, 224 



Skua, Richardson's, 51 



Skues" Minor Tactics of the Chalk 



Stream, 262 

 Smith, Abel, 257 

 Snakes, 174, 215 

 Snipe, 7, 62, 94, 239, 243 

 Snow at Poltalloch, 241 

 Snow bunting, 61 

 Snowy owl, 204 

 Sceter girls, 190, 197, 206 

 Sceters, 190 

 Solan geese, 54, 61 

 Spate in Norway, a, 153-7 

 Speyside, 8 

 Spider crab, 23 

 Sponges, 105, 106 

 Squids, 104 



