List of Illustrations 



FACING PAGE 



Storm Petrel : The Bird and the Egg Exposed . . 72 



Young Storm Petrel about a Fortnight Old . . 73 



Young Storm Petrel perhaps a Month Old . . 73 



Looking North- West over the Conical Peaks of Harris 



FROM the Top of Clisham 80 



Fin Whale landed at the Whaling Station, Harris . 80 



The Top of the Pool 81 



The Wells of Dee 81 



Hen Ptarmigan feigning Wounded and crouching 



Snake-like 86 



Ptarmigan Listening for her Chicks .... 86 



Sun Setting behind the Sound of Mull ... 87 



The Hazy Plains of the Atlantic .... 87 



A Hebridean Dwelling House 92 



Hebridean Islanders Gathering Sand to Sprinkle on 



the Earthen Floors of their Houses ... 92 



Greater Black-backed Gull on her Nest ... 93 



Greater Black-backed Gull : Forty Winks : Feeling 



the Heat 100 



Guillemots Nesting in Thousands on one of the Stacks 



of Mingulay lOI 



Crowded Guillemot Ledges 500 ft. above the Sea : 



Mingulay 104 



Dotterel approaching a Nest at 3,200 ft. above the 



Sea 105 



Dotterel on his Nest 3,600 ft. above the Sea . . 105 



A Dotterel's Nest about 4,000 ft. above the Sea : Sleepy 



AND Contented 108 



Dotterel : The Baby's First Appearance . . .108 



Dotterel Brooding the Young at 4,000 ft. above the 



Sea 109 



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