Index 



Ladies as fishers, 120 



and otter-hunting, 203 

 fox-hunting, 255 

 Lapwings, 141, 180 



wintering, 247, 253 

 Lerwick, 92 

 Leithen, no 



Life on mountain top, 230 

 Linnet, rose, 133, 180 

 ,, mountain, 183 

 ,, rose, flight note of, 250 

 Lowland burn, 68 

 Lomonds, 245 

 Loch Leven winter, 246 

 ,, Skene, 250 



M 



Magpie, 173 



,, nest of, 173 

 Mallard, 141, 233 

 Man, rod, and basket, in 

 Market for specimens, 38 

 Marten, 38 



and poacher, 39 

 and Grampians, 39 

 in Argyll, 39 

 Sutherland, 39 

 at Barcaldine, 43 

 Faskally, 44 

 Martins, sand, 82 

 Merlin, 51 



Messina, Straits of, 75 

 Medusae, 100 

 Meet at the mill, 207 

 Mill lade, 80 

 Midsummer night, 88 

 Mist, 98 



Mixed pack, 207 

 Mire snipe, 232 

 Migrant wild-fowl, 242 

 Moths, 88 

 Moss-cheeper, 141 

 Moffat burn, 260 

 Mrs. Shoddington's collie, 9 



N 



Nature, angler's book, 187 



,, balance of, 222 

 Night anglers, 213 

 Nomad life, 135 

 Nomads at play, 139 

 Northern twilight, 69 



Oat field, 180 

 Old servants, 24 

 Olden golf course, 140 



golfer, 146 

 Osprey, 153 



in Sutherland, 155 

 at Stanley, 162 

 coming of, 159 

 nesting sites of, 155 

 tragedy on loch, 160 

 Otter, 192 



pups, 194 

 and fish, 195 

 in Sutherland, 196 

 hunting, 198 

 Out-of-door life, 204 



Partridge, 4 



nest of, 7 

 Passing herd, 60 

 Pastoral scene, 2 

 Peat hags, 257 

 Peebles, 104 

 "Peerie" cow, 92 

 Piper and the water-hen, 217 

 Poacher, trout, 81 

 Polecat, 39 



in Sutherland, 39 



,, and ferret, 40 

 Poor man's fish, 122 



feather, 243 

 ,, shooting ground, 244 

 Ptarmigan, 228 



Rabbit warren, 137 

 Rat, brown, 87 

 Raven, 167 

 Redbreast, 247 

 Red deer at home, 63 



,, ,, and the stalker, 64 

 Redshank, 148 

 Resident wild-fowl, 240 



Ring ousel, 262 



song of, 262 



Rivals, 214 



Ronaleyn Gordon Gumming, 158 



Rooks and gulls, 166 



Rosa Bonheur and the tourist, 61 



Royston crow, 167 



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