XU CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



FIELD-NOTES FOR THE YEAR. 

 CHAPTER XII. 



JANUARY. 



Wood-pigeons — Feeding of Widgeon and Mallards — Wild 

 Fowl — Water Rail — Wild Duck shooting — Change of 

 colour in Trout Page 169 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 FEBRUARY. 



Change of colour in Stoats — Affection of Otters for their young 



— Roe-hunting • — Attachment of Birds to their Mates — Food 

 of Fieldfares during Snow — Widgeon — Wildfowl shooting 

 at Spynie — Incidents in shooting — Winged Swan — Cats — 

 Food of Wild Geese — Brent Goose . . . 178 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 MARCH. 



Wild Swans — Loch of Spynie ; Wild Fowl on it — Pochard — 

 Carrion Crows — Death of Wild Swan — Domestication of 

 Wild Fowl ; flavour of — Arrival of Geese . . 193 



CHAPTER XV. 



APRIL. 



Field Mice — Brent Geese — Arrival of Migratory Birds — In- 

 stinct of Crows in Feeding — Instinct of Thrushes — Disap- 

 pointments in Shooting Wild Geese — Death of White-fronted 

 Geese — Shetland Pony — Heronry — Anecdote of Roebuck 



— Wild Duck's Nest 205 



