INDEX 



549 



Volga, River, 469 



Vultures, increase during \Var in Eastern 

 Europe, 396 



Wagtails, Pied, in Edinburgh, 406 



railway embankments as nesting-place of, 



399 



Wainfleet, 139 



Walker, Prof. John, 352, 429 

 Wallace, Prof. Robert, 43, 80 

 Walls, island of, 280 

 Walrus, destruction for oil, 1 7 1 



disappearance from Scotland, 171 f.-n. 

 Waltham Abbey, 265 

 Wangford, 298 



War, the Great, destruction of birds as food 

 during, 139 



distribution of Beetles and Moths in dry 

 food materials during, 444 



effects of, on animal life, 109. 136, 137, 



205, 212, 214, 361, 396, 402 

 Warble, Ox, 423 

 Warblers, 256 



as pest, 394 



increase due to cultivation, 230, 394 



Savi's, 191 



Sedge, increase of, 230 



Wood, increase of, 230 

 Wardlaw Chronicles, 149, 211, 287 

 Washington, 475 

 Wasps, change of food habits, 4 1 1 



Wood. See Sirex 



Waste land, effects of breaking in, 364-370 

 Water-fleas, in waterworks, 414, 415 



influence of drought upon, 373 

 Water-pipes, fauna of, 413-415, 470, 487 

 Water-rail, 17 



Waterston, Rev. James, 404 

 Waterways, dispersal of animals by, 397 

 Waterworks, fauna of, 413415, 470, 487 

 Weasel, in Scotland, 17, 329 



destruction as pest, 127, 181 

 for skin, 221 



increase of, 485 



introduction to New Zealand, 245, 255 



to Shetland (Stoats), 299 

 Weeds, transportation of, 418, 473 

 Weevils, 475 



Apple blossom, 392 



Corn or Granary, 441, 445 f.-n. 



increase due to cultivation, 392 



Pine, 472, 474 



Raspberry, 392 



Rice, 474 



Strawberry, 392 



Sweet Potato, 474 

 Wedderburn, Lieut. -Col., 370 

 Wedderburn's Accompt Book, 136, 224, 



395 



Wedel, Baron von, 225, 251 

 Weisdale Voe, 226, 280 

 Weldon, Sir Anthony, 312 

 Wemyss Caves, 57, 87, 97 



West Indies, 450, 460, 464, 466, 470 



West Kilbride, 34, 87 



West Linton, 406, 502 



Whale, destruction for oil, 174-175 



Finner. See Rorqual below 



food of early inhabitants, 8 



Greenland, Right or Whalebone, 174, 175 



in Firth of Forth, 386 



Pilot, or Ca'ing, 175 



prehistoric remains of, o, 20, 70 



Ravens feasting on, 226 



Rorqual, or Finner, 20, 175 



slaughter at S. Georgia, no, 175 



Sperm, 174, 175 



Whalebone. See Greenland above 

 Wheat, animals introduced with, 438-442 



Midge, 440 

 Wheatear, 1 40, 394 

 White, Gilbert, 435 ' 



Rev. Thomas, 316 

 White Moss, West Linton, 502 

 Whitewreath, 165 

 Whitmuir Hill, 51 

 Whit ret. See Weasel 

 Whitrig Bog, 347 

 Whittlesea Meer, 190 

 Wick, 341 

 Wigeon, change of food habits, 412 



protection for hawking, 203 

 Wigtownshire, Boar, Wild, prehistoric re- 

 mains in, 90 



Capercaillie in, 273 



Celtic Shorthorn in, 57 



Chough in, 178 



Deer, Red, prehistoric remains in, 333 



Dog, early remains in, 87 



Elk, prehistoric remains in, 16, 347 



forest, prehistoric, in, 308 

 ' Squirrel, Red, in, 293, 297 



Urus, prehistoric remains in, 50 

 Wild, O. H., 179, 402, 403, 412, 432, 501 

 Wild-fowl, destruction by decoy, 139 

 by punt-gunning, 188 



protection for food, 217 

 for hawking, 203 



reclamation of marsh affecting, 370 etseq. 

 William of Malmesbury, 236, 371 

 Williestruther Loch, 347 

 Wilson; Dr R. M., 296 

 Wireworms, increase of, 392 

 Woburn, 288 

 Wolfelee, 121 f.-n., 292 

 Wolves in Scotland, 1 7, 20, 308, 329, 365, 497 



destruction of, 115-121, 482, 488, 496 

 for sport, 184 



effect of destruction of forests upon, 35 r 



forests, destruction of, to extirpate, 120, 

 3i8 



increase during war, 396 

 in Poland, 109 



legislation relating to, 1 16 et seq. 



place names as evidence of, 121 f.-n. 



prehistoric remains of, 69, 115 



