CONTENTS OF VOL. I. xiii 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 MAY. 

 Nests of Birds — Cross-bills, &c. — Lateness of Season — Bean- 

 Geese — Partridge's Nest — Northern Diver — Coot's Nest — 

 Teal and her Young — Wren's Nest — Badgers ; cunning of; 

 anecdote of — Aurora Borealis ; sound made by . Page 221 



CHAPTER XVII. 



JUNE. 



Trout Fishing — Sea Trout in the Fiudhorn — Breeding-place 



of Black-headed Gulls — Salmon Fishing — Grey Crows — 



Hair Worms — Fishing — Cromarty — Goats — The Peregrine 



Falcon 232 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 JULY. 



Shore Birds ; arrival of— Foxes — Herring, and Herring Fish 

 ing ; Birds, &c. feeding on them — Herring Fishing in Suther- 

 land — A Sharper — Numbers of Flounders — Young Wild 

 Fowl — Roe ; habits of — Midges — Angling — Floods in the 

 Findhorn — Prophecy of a Woman — Escape of a Shep- 

 herd 247 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 AUGUST. 



Golden Plover — Ring Dottrel — Migratory Birds — Butter- 

 flies — Crabs ; their manner of casting their shells — The 

 Sea Angler — The Deal Fish — Habits of Woodcocks — 



A pet Roe — Grouse Shootings and Grouse Wild 



Fowl ofic 



