The 



WILD SPORTS & NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



THE HIGHLANDS 



DONALD INSTRUCTING HIS YOUNG MASTER 



INTRODUCTION 



I HAVE lived for several years in the northern counties of Scoti 

 land, and during the last four or five in the province of Moray, 

 a part of the country peculiarly adapted for collecting facts in 

 Natural History, and for becoming intimate with the habits of 

 many of our British wild birds and quadrupeds. Having been 

 in the habit of keeping an irregular kind of journal, and of 

 making notes of any incidents which have fallen under rny 



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