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INDEX 



Tinwald, 310 



Tiree, Celtic Shorthorn, prehistoric remains 

 in. 57 



Chough in, 178 



Hare, Common Brown, in, 280 



Hebridean ponies in, 75 

 Tits, Great, as insect-eaters, 393 



increase due to cultivation, 394 



influence of towns upon, 406 



Scottish Crested, 230 



Toads, decrease due to reclamation of 

 swamps, 373 



Natterjack and Common, prehistoric re- 

 mains in Sutherland, 373 

 Tomocerns minor, 416 

 Tongue, 325 

 Top shell, 20 

 Tope, 19 

 Tor Wood, if 4, 312 



Wild White Cattle of, 66 

 Torquay, fauna of water-supply of, 414 

 Torrey, 427 



Towns, influence on habits of animals, 40^- 

 408 



influence on song and nesting of birds, 407 

 Trail, Prof. J. W. H., 500 

 Transport affecting dispersal of animals, 



397-399. See also Chapter vm 

 Transportations of animals, 278-282 

 Trap-netting, 139 

 Traprain, 56, 248, 316 

 Traquair, 430 

 Tree-Creeper, 329 



Trees, creatures introduced with, 459 

 Treig, Loch, 399 

 Treves, Sir Frederick, 290 

 Triboliiim caslanenm, 441, 445 f.-n. 



confitsnm, 441, 445 f.-n. 



ferruginetim, 441 

 Trichinella spiralis, 508 

 Trichinosis, 508 

 Trichocephalus dispar, 422 

 Triglyphothrix striatiiiens, 463 

 Trochns lineatus, 20 



Troglodytes hirUnsis. See Wren, St Kilda 

 Tropical plants, introductions with, 462 

 Troqueer, 164 

 Troup Head, 296 



Trout, American Brook, or "Rainbow," 

 277. 383 



Brown, transportation of, 278 



Lake Geneva, introduction of, 277 



Loch Leven, transportation of, 241, 278 



protection for food, 217, 219 



Rainbow (Salnio iridtus), 278 



spawning beds destroyed by floods, 328 



transportation of, 241, 242, 278 

 Trypetid, 474 

 Tnbiilaria crocea, 433 

 Tulliallan, 270, 273 

 Tulloch, 13 j 

 Tummel, River, 271 

 Tunis, 451 



Tunisia, forest destruction in, 323 



Turkey, the, 106, 266 



Turner, Sir William, 52 



Turnip crops, birds as pests on, 412 



increase of pests of, 392 

 Turtiix sylvatica. See Quail, Button- 

 Turriff, 296 



Turtle, destruction of eggs for oil, 171 

 Tweed, River, decline of fisheries, 151 



Grayling in, 276 



Salmon run in, 381 



spearing of, in, 150 



Tweed valley, Elk, prehistoric remains in, 

 16, 346 



Great Crested Grebe in, 230 



Mallard in, 411 



Rat, Brown, in, 430 



Sheep, destruction of woods by, 323 

 flocks in, 41, 42 

 four-horned, in, 41 



Timberman Beetle in, 472 



Urus, prehistoric remains in, 51 

 Tweedmouth, 472 

 Twite, 193 

 Tyree. See Tiree 

 Tyroglyphiis, 410 



Ubaldini, Pet., 149 



Uisg, Loch, 278 



Uist, North and South, 74, 75, 128, 172, 

 277, 412 



Ulbster, si, 56, 71 



Ullapool, 314 



Ulverston, 320 



Unapool, Loch, 279 



Urial, Asiatic, 36, 40, 42, 43 



Uruguay, counter-pests in, 262 



Urus in Scotland, 49-55, 60, 62, 63, 67, 



68, 308 



characteristics of, 52 

 effect of destruction of forest upon, 350 

 resistance to domestication, 54 



Vanessa c-albuin, 369 



Vedalia cardinalis, 260 



Vegetables, introduction of animals with, 



457-466 



Vegetation, influence of rabbits etc. on, 

 2 53> 499' 500 



post-glacial, 10 

 Vemantry, 132 

 Venus Shell,' Warty, 154 

 Vermin, destruction of animals as, 176-183 



increase of, 137 



during War, 109, 182 

 Vienna, 438 



Vine, Phylloxera of, 461, 474, 487 

 Vineyards, French, birds of, 394 

 Virginia, West, bird protection in, 227 

 Voles, destruction as pest, 179 



plague of, 137, 391 



Northern, 14 



extermination of, 14, 481 



