496 



INDEX. 



Water-ousels, 267 note, 282 et seq. 



Whales in the Sound of Mull, 441. 



Widgeon, 160. 



Wild cat, the, 259 et seq. 



Wild-fowl shooting on the Highland 

 lochs, 146 a sportsman's equip- 

 ment, 147 necessity for being hardy, 

 ib. his gun and shot, 148 wild 

 geese, ib. a proper retriever, 149 

 how to approach fowl, 152 caution 

 when about to fire, 153 approach 

 ducks and widgeon to leeward, 154 

 springy drains, ib. a shot at ducks 

 in March, 155 morillons, ib. the 

 golden-eye, ib. dun birds, 157 how 

 to manoeuvre them, ib. tufted and 



scaup ducks, 158 goosander, red- 

 throated diver, &c., 159 wild swans, 

 ib. widgeon and teal, 160 times of 

 appearance of water-fowl, 161 the 

 harvest moon and winter storm, ib. 

 sitting shots the only proof of skill, 

 162. 



Woodcocks and snipes, 118 regularity 

 of flight, ib. their choice of coverts, 

 119 shooting woodcocks, 120 

 tangled copses on the hillside, ib. 

 woodcocks bred in the islands of 

 Loch Lomond, 121 their evening 

 flight, ib. the mire-snipe, 122 

 Jacks, ib. 



Wood-pigeon, the, 271. 



THE END. 



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