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INDEX 



Bittern, in Scotland, 21, 374 



destruction for sport, 187 



extermination due to reclamation of 

 swamps, 374, 482, 497 



prehistoric remains of, 18 



protection for hawking, 203 



use as food, 140 

 Blabera gigatitea, 463 

 Black Loch, Wigtownshire, 90 

 Blackbird, as pest, 228, 231 



change of food habit, 411 



increase of, 230, 394 



protection by popular favour, 234 



slaughter for food, 139 

 Blackgame, 241, 266, 267, 271, 329 



price of, 140 



protection for sport, 203, 205, 206 

 Blackball, 274 



Blackwater, Slipper Limpet in, 424 

 Blair Athole, 271, 287, 293, 319 

 Blair Drummond, 56, 104, 273 

 Blastophaga grossorum, 257 

 Blatta orientalis. See Cockroach, Common 

 " Bloomeries," 320 et seq. 

 Boar, Wild, in Scotland, 16, 20, 89 



destruction for sport, 138, 184 



domestication of, 89-95, 491 



prehistoric and early remains of, 30, 33, 



89,90 



Boar's Chase, 90 

 Boarhills, 90 



Bobwhite. See Quail, Virginian 

 Boece, Hector, 38, 46, 65, 80, 87, 88, 89, 

 ti6, 118, 122, 127, 133, 155, 158, 200, 

 268, 316, 318, 355, 365, 366, 371, 3^6 

 Boelter, Mr, 431 

 " Bog butter," 58 

 Bonar Bridge, 295, 398 

 Bone implements, 7 

 Bo'ness, 435, 472 

 " Book worm," 410 

 Boorde, Andrew, 312 

 Booth, E. T., 35* 

 Boreray, 146 

 Borgue parish, 510 

 Borland Water, 277 

 Borness Cave, 56, 57, 72, 73, 331, 334 

 Borough Loch, Edinburgh, 371 

 Bos tanrus longifrons. See Cattle, Celtic 



Shorthorn 



Bos taurus primigenius. See Urus 

 Bot-fly, 423 

 Botanic Garden, Cambridge, 436 



Edinburgh, 436, 463 



Glasgow, 436, 463 



Kew, 436 



Regent's Park, London, 466 

 Botaitrus stellaris. See Bittern 

 Bothriocephahis lattis, 421 

 Braconid, 458 

 Braemar, 80, 122, 125, 128, 136, in, 314, 



Brambling, 389 



Brand, Rev. John, 77, 130, 141, 169, 201, 



280, 299 

 Brazil, 421, 460 

 Breadalbane, 120 



Marquis of, 270 



Breaking in of waste lands, 365-370 

 Bream, Sea, 8, 19, 149 



Black Sea, 19 

 Brechin, 272, 293 

 Bressay, 76 



Bridge of Frew, 292, 398 

 Bridges, as means of dispersal of animals, 398 

 Bristol, 466 



British Columbia, 242, 451 

 Brochs, animal remains of, 52, 54, 57, 67, 

 72, 76, 87,90, 112, 114, 115, 144, 331, 



333> 337> 34. 34i, 34 8 . 35 

 Brock. See Badger 

 Broom, Loch, 296 



Brown, Prof. Hume, 47, 249, 312, 316, 371 

 Browne, E. T., 433 

 B ruckus chinensis, 446 



lentis, 446 



obtectus, 446 



pisorum, 445 



rttfimanus, 446 

 Buchan, 426 



Forest of, Aberdeenshire, 3 1 1 



Kirkcudbrightshire, 334 f.-n. 

 Buchan, Rev. A., 145 

 Buchanan, J. H., 178 

 Buchat, River, 278 

 Buckinghamshire, 288 

 Buffalo, American, no 

 Bugs, Bed, introduction of, 42 r, 487, 497 

 nouses selected as domiciles by,- 404 



Common Mealy, 475 



Lantana, 461 



plant, 459, 474 



Tropical Bed, 421 



Vine, 461, 474, 487 



Bulbs, transportation of pests with, 465, 474 

 Bulimus decolletus, 465 



goodalli, 464 



octontts, 464 



undattts, 470 



Bullfinch, 231, 241, 242, 390 

 Bunavve, 321, 353 

 Buntings, 140, 394, 413 



Corn, 389 



European, 394 



Snow, 141 



Bupestris hamorrhoidalis, 472 

 Burbot, in Hamburg water-system, 414 

 Burghead, 57, 161 

 Burnham, J. B., 206 

 Burra, 250 

 Burt, Capt., 356 

 Burwick, Broch of, 341 

 Bustard, Great, 21 



destruction for plumage, 189 

 for sport, 187 



extermination, 274, 363, 366, 482, 497 



