INDEX 



547 



Sutherland Cont. 

 Otter in, 170 

 Ouzel, Water, in, 181 

 Pike, in, 279 

 Polecat in, 165, 166, 177 

 Rabbit in, 252 

 Rats, absence from, 426 

 Raven in, 137 



Reindeer in, 31, 187, 340, 341 

 Squirrel in, 181, 295, 297, 351, 398 

 Trout, transported to lochs of, 279 

 Urus, early remains in, 52 

 VVildCat, in, 126, 177 

 Wolf in, 119, 120 

 Sutherland, Kyle of, 279 

 Swallows, habit of selecting a domicile, 401, 



402 



protection through superstition, 239 

 telegraph wires as roosting places, 379 

 Swallows, Cliff, 402 



Swamps, reclamation of, 370-377, 488, 510 

 Swan, Wild, as food, 440, 266 

 destruction for sport, 188 

 on Loch Spynie, 372 

 prehistoric remains of, 18 

 price of, 140, 376 

 Sweden, 463 

 Swift, Dean, 404 

 Swifts, food of, 403 



habit of selection of domicile, 401 

 Swine, as city scavengers, 224. See Boar, 



Wild. Also Pigs 

 Swinton, 90 

 Swinwood, 90 

 Switzerland, 219, 344, 453 

 Sylvius, Aeneas, 312, 31*5 

 Syntornaspis diuparitm, 453 

 Syntomidae, 448 



Taenia nana, 42 1 



saginata, 421, 422 



solium, 421. 422 

 Talitrus sal tutor, 395 

 Taradale, animal sanctuary at, 237 

 Tarbat House, 295 

 Tarljert, 288 

 Tarbolton, 71 

 Tarland Burn, 294 

 Tamaway Forest. See Darnaway F. 

 Tasmania, 442, 452 

 Tay, Loch, 271, 273 

 Tay, River, Grayling in, 276 



pearl fishing in, 195 



Perch in, 279 



pollution of, 385 



Salmon spawn destroyed by floods in, 328 



Tench in, 279 

 Tay valley, Capercaillie in, 272 



Celtic Shorthorn, prehistoric remains in, 

 56 



Deer, Fallow, in 287 

 Red, in, 333 

 Roe, in, 332 



Tay valley Cont. 

 Squirrel in, 293 



Urus, prehistoric remains in, 51 

 Tayfield, Fife, 395 

 Taylor, John, the Water Poet, 80, 120, 211, 



267, 356 



Tay mouth Castle, 270, 271, 273 

 Taynuilt, 321,353, 354 

 Teal, as food, 140 



on White Moss at West Linton, 504 

 protection of, 266 



for hawking, 203 

 Technoniyrmex albipes, 463 

 Tegenaria derhamii, 404 

 Teith, valley of, 273 

 Telegraph wires, as roosting-places of birds, 



379. 399 



mortality among birds due to, 379 

 Tench, transportation of, 279 

 Tenebrio molt tor, 410, 443 



obscurus, 443 



Tenebrioides mattritanicns, 441, 445 f. -n. 

 Teredo, introduction by ships, 432' 

 Termite, 440 

 Terns, 17 

 Black, 191 



White, destruction for plumage, 189 

 Testacella matigei, 465 

 Tetramorium guineense, 463 

 Tetranychus telarius, 392 

 Tctrao urogallus. See Capercaillie 

 Teviot, River, 276, 384 

 Thainstone, 294 

 Thames, the, 384, 469 



Estuary, 424 



Tha nasim us fo rm i car ins ,416 

 Thayngen, 344 



Theridion tepidariornm, 404, 463 

 Thick-knee, 401 

 Thornton, Colonel, 115 

 Thortorwald, 310 

 Thrips, foreign species introduced into 



greenhouses, 463 

 transportation of, 474 

 Thrumster, 331 

 Thrushes, as pests, 231, 411 

 as prey of Little Owl, 256 

 change of food habits, 411 

 destruction for food, 139 

 increase due to cultivation, 394 



due to protection, 230 

 influence of towns upon, 406, 407 

 protection by popular favour, 234 

 Thymallus thymalliis. See Grayling 

 Ticks, Asiatic, 423 



introduced as parasites on livestock, 423 

 "Sheep-, "423 

 Sheep, true, 423 

 Spiny ear-, 421 



Timber, animals introduced with, 467-473 

 Tinea tinea. See Tench 

 Tinea granella, 443 

 Tineidae, 410 



