VI CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Taming and Education of Wild Animals — The Eagle ; his 

 ■want of docility — Courage and Intelligence of the Noble 

 Falcons — The Hound — Keturn of Cats to their home — 

 Maternal Instinct of Cats — The Carrier-Pigeon — Wood- 

 Pigeons — Dovecot-Pigeons — Sight of Pigeons — Blue-rock 

 Pigeons — Crested Titmouse — The Eobin ; pugnacious dis- 

 position of — Sparrows ; impudence of . . Page 153 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Instinct of Birds — The Woodcock carrying her young — Herons 



— Water-Ousel — Nest of Golden-Eye Duck — Habits of Birds 



— Talons of Falcons and Hawks — Stuffed Birds — Plumage, 

 &c. of Owls — The Osprey and Sea Swallow — Manner of 

 Fishing — Carrion-feeding Birds — Manner of finding their 

 Food — The Eagle — Seuse of Smell in Birds — in Ducks 

 and Geese — Power of communicating with each other — 

 Notes of Alarm — A few words respecting destroying Hawks, 

 &c. — Colour of Birds adapted to concealment — Instinct of 

 Birds finding Food— Red Deer — Tame Koebuck . 164 



SCOTCH STREAMS AND LAKES. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



Kivers, Streams, and Lakes in Scotland — The Tweed — The 

 Lakes and Streams of Argyleshire — Loch Awe — A Contest 

 with a Salmo ferox — Inverness-shire, Ross-shire, and Suther- 

 land — Pike not an injurious destroyer of Trout — Char — 

 The River Shin — Pertinacity of Salmon in ascending Streams 

 — The Beauly — The Findhorn — The Spey — The Dee — 

 Decrease in the number of Salmon ; its causes and its cure — 

 Extent of the trade of Fly-making .... 184 



