CONTENTS, 



CHAPTER XXI. 



PACR 



Storms— An "inch" of Rain— ^ (Act-j )W Presbyter— LopUus Pismtorinx 



— Mr. Mortimer Collins' misquotation from the Times, . . 1 21 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Aurora Borealis — Unfavourable weather for Birds about St. Valentine's 

 Day— The Water- Vole in the Rhi— In the Eden in Fifeshire- In the 

 Black Water, Kinloch Leven — Does it feed on Salmon Fry and Ova ? 

 — The Kingfisher — Character of the Water- Vole— Note about the 

 Hedgehog, .........■•!-' 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



March — The Story of a Spanish Dollar — The Spanish Armada^ The 

 " Florida " — Faire-Chlaidh, or Watching of the Graveyard — Mole- 

 hill Earth for Flowers, 133 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



The Beauty of the West Highland Seaboard — Dr. Alton of Dolphinton 

 — Dr. Norman Macleod — Specimen of Turtle-Dove (Columha Turlur) 

 shot in Ardgour — The belief on the Continent of its value as a House- 

 hold Pet — Bechstein — Male Birds dropping Eggs in confinement, . 140 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Thunderstorm — Potato Field in Bloom — The Hazel Tree — Hazel Nuts — 

 Potato Shaws for Cattle — Ferns for Bedding Cattle — ^farmion — 

 Scott, m 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Harvest — Scythe and Sickle v. Reaping Machines — Potatoes — Garibaldi 

 and Potatoes at Caprera — Fishing — Platessa Ocmmatus, or Diamond 

 Plaice — Mushrooms — The Poetry of Fairy Rings — Harvest-Home, l,"iO 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



The disappearance of the glories of Autumn, and the advent of Winter 

 — Innovations and Innovators — Now A'ersion of the Scripturts — 

 The Milkmaid and her Fairy Lover, translated from the Gaelic, . \f,9 



