PREFATORY MEMOIR. 



FOE nearly half a century 'The Moor and the Loch' has 

 stood at the head of books on Scottish Sport, and each suc- 

 cessive edition has testified to the care and labour which the 

 Author bestowed upon keeping his work well abreast with 

 the times. Down to the time of his death, in 1885, he 

 was closely engaged in correcting and revising ' The Moor 

 and the Loch.' The sixth edition having been for some time 

 out of print, advantage has been taken of the opportunity 

 to reissue the work in a form more adapted for a practical 

 manual of Sport. Mr Colquhoun was not less a naturalist 

 than a sportsman, and many of his chapters, though extremely 

 valuable and interesting as recording the experiences of a 

 keen observer, were of less direct service to the sportsman than 

 his instructions and experiences with the gun and the rod. 

 In the present edition, everything of practical value connected 

 with stalking, shooting, and fishing has been retained, and the 

 book still affords a complete guide to both the moor and the 

 loch. Disquisitions have been condensed to their results ; 

 controversies have been superseded by the Author's latest 

 conclusions ; and subjects which in the interval since the 

 appearance of the first edition have become more or less 

 obsolete, have been omitted. The Author's final corrections 

 have been incorporated in the present text, which in its more 



