CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER LXI. 



"PAGE 



Overland from Ballachulish to Oban on a " Pet Day " in February — 

 Story of Clach Rune — Castle Stalker : an old Stronghold of the 

 Stewarts of Appin — James IV. — Charles II. — Magpies — Dim-Mac- 

 Uisneachan, 394 



CHAPTER LXII. 



Nest-building — Cunningham's objection to Burns' Song, "0 were my 

 Love yon Lilac fair " — Birds and the Lilac Tree — Rivalries of Birds — 

 Birds and the Poets — The Nightingale, 402 



CHAPTER LXIII. 



March Dust — Moons of Mars — Planetoids — Occultation of Alpha 

 Leonis — Zodiacal Light — Snow Bunting — Old Gaelic Ballad of 

 "Deirdri;" Its Topography, . . . . . . . 410 



