List of Illustrations 



FACING PAGE 



YOUNG RAVENS JUST AFTER LEAVING THE NEST . . 109 



RAZORBILLS WITH FOUR HERRING FRY . . . .114 



RINGED GUILLEMOT AT HOME . . *';;/ . . . 114 



RAZORBILLS IN CONCLAVE . . . > ; - . *' 115 



GUILLEMOTS: A LEISURED TOILET . ^ ; ' 'V . 115 



PUFFINS WITH SAND EELS . "..- . -* V , . 116 



PUFFINS: SOMEWHAT WEARY .; > . \ . *, 116 



A RAVEN'S NEST AND EGGS IN A SNOW-CLAD GULLY . .117 



GUILLEMOTS WITH THEIR CATCH . . . . -.-# 128 



GANNETS AT THE BASS ROCK . . . . . . 129 



GANNET : POISED . . . . . . . . 130 



GANNETS AT THE BASS ROCK : " FULL STEAM AHEAD " . 131 



AN IMMATURE TWO-YEAR-OLD GANNET . . . 131 



" GOOD HUNTING, MY CHILD " . V . . . . 134 



THE POOLS OF DEE, WITH LOCHAN UAINE IN THE DIS- 

 TANCE . . 'M . ' *- . " . . . 135 

 AN AUTUMN SNOWFALL ON THE LAIRIG SUMMIT . , 148 

 SALMON SPAWNING-GROUND ON THE UPPER DEE . . 148 

 LOCH EINICH AND SGORAN DUBH + . . . 149 

 SGORAN DUBH, LOOKING NORTH : AN AUTUMN SNOWFALL . 152 

 SGORAN DUBH: AN AUTUMN SNOWFALL . , . . / 152 

 SGORAN DUBH : A PILGRIM IN SNOWY WASTES . .; . 153 

 BEN MACDHUI IN SEPTEMBER . . . . 153 



BEN MACDHUI IN SEPTEMBER : LOOKING WESTWARD INTO 



COIRE ODHAR . v . . / . . . 162 



LOCH ETCHACHAN AND BEINN MHEADHON . . ,* . 162 



AN OCTOBER DAY IN THE FOREST : ACROSS THE SNOW- 

 COVERED TOPS : SPYING THE CORRIES * .... . 163 



SUN AND STORM-CLOUDS . v * * _ * . . 176 



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