CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIII 



PAGE 



Weasels — Ferrets : Fierceness of — Anecdotes — -Food of Weasels — Manner 

 of Hunting for Prey — The Stoat : Change of Colour ; Odour of ; 

 Food of ; Their catching Fish — Polecat — The Marten Cat : Habits ; 

 Trapping ; Eating Fruit ; Activity of ; Different Species . . t 1 6 



CHAPTER XIV 



Anecdotes and Instinct of Dogs — Anecdotes of Retriever — Shepherds' 

 Dogs — Sagacity — Dogs and Monkey — Bulldog — Anecdotes of Shoot- 

 ing a Stag — Treatment of Dogs . . . . . . .124 



CHAPTER XV 



Increase of Wood-pigeons and other Birds — Service to the Farmer of 

 these Birds — ^Tame Wood-pigeons : Food of — The Turtle-Dove — 

 Blue Rock-Pigeons : Caves where they breed — Shooting at the 

 Rocks near Cromarty . . . . . . . -13 5 



CHAPTER XVI 



Wild Ducks : Edible kinds of — Breeding-places of Mallards — Change of 

 Plumage — Shooting — Feeding-places — Half-bred Wild Ducks — Anas 

 glacialis- — Anas clangula : Habits of — Teeth of Goosander — Cor- 

 morants — Anecdotes . . . . . . . .144 



CHAPTER XVII 



Birds that come in Spring — ^The Pewit : Pugnacity ; Nests of ; Cunning 

 — Ring-Dotterel — Redshank — Oyster-Catcher : Food ; Swimming 

 of ; Nest — Curlew — Redstart — Swallows, etc 1 54 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Sheldrake : Nest ; Food — Teal : Breeding-places ; Anecdotes — ^Land- 

 rail : Arrival of — Cuckoo — Nightjar : Habits of — Quail — Grebe : 

 Arrival ; Account of Nest and Young — Bald Coot — ^Water-Hen — 

 Water-Rail 162 



CHAPTER XIX 



Wild Geese : Arrival of ; Different kinds of ; Anecdotes of — Shooting 

 Wild Geese — Feeding-places — Wariness — Habits — Breeding-places 

 —Black-headed Gull — Birds that breed on the River-banks . .172 



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