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INDEX. 
Aricline, Loch, rabbits at, 95. 
Argentina syphrana, 291. 
Argentine, 284. 
Arenaria serpylUjiora, 31. 
Argj'll, 61 ; faunal area of, 59. 
Armadale, common gulls near, 231. 
Armeria maritima, 31. 
Arnoglossus laterna, 279; megastoma, 279. 
Artemisia absinthium, 31. 
Arvicola agrestis, 93; amphibius, 92, 304 ; 
glareolus, 93. 
Aschoil, brambling killed at, 129. 
Ash, rook builds on, 149. 
Asio accipitrinus, 160. 
Asplenium niarbmm, 31. 
Assynt, mountains of, 28 ; limestones of, 
31 ; marble of, 32 ; parish of, holds 
300 lochs, 33 ; birch woods of, 42 ; 
wolf killed in, 65 ; water shrew in, 
73; wild-cat in, 75; fox in, 76; marten 
in, 77 ; otter in, 79 ; badger in, 80 ; 
afforested ground of, 87 ; water-vole 
in, 92 ; hare rare in, 94 ; ring-ouzel 
in, 101 ; wheatear in, 103 ; hedge- 
sparrow in, 112 ; greenfinch in, 126 ; 
skylark in, 144 ; hooded-crow in, 147 ; 
record of ravens in, 151 ; nightjar un- 
known till 1875 in, 154 ; short-eared 
owl in, 160; buzzard rare in, 166; 
white-tailed eagle breeding in, 169 ; 
merlin in, 175 ; osprey seen in, 178 ; 
widgeon not recorded in, 191 ; pheasant 
introduced to, in 1869, 201 ; grouse 
killed in, 204 ; woodcock common in, 
217; redshank common in, 223 ; adder 
rare in, 247 ; brambling in, 305. 
Athene noctua, 163. 
Atriplex hastata, 31. 
Auk, great, 62, 239 ; little, 241. 
Auld, George, druggist, Wick, 133. 
Ault-an-oul, 36. 
Aultnagealgach, 14, 35, 40, 41, 56, 59 ; 
lizard about, 248. 
Aultnatore, 66. 
Auxis rochei, 263. 
Avocet, 215. 
"Awpie," 240. 
Badcall Bay, whimbrel observed in, 
225 ; Islands, 37, 40 ; brown rat in, 92 ; 
song- thrush in, 98 ; starling abundant 
on, 144 ; colony of cormorants on, 178; 
purple sandpiper on, 220 ; common 
tern shot near, 228 ; lesser black- 
backed gull on, 233 ; stormy petrel 
nesting on, 237 ; black guillemot breeds 
on, 241. 
Badger, 80, 303. 
Badenloch, 15, 27, 60 ; hedge-sparrow at, 
112 ; twite at, 131 ; reed bunting at, 
137 ; swift seen at, 153 ; greylag goose 
at, 183 ; partridge at, 201 ; ringed 
plover at, 213 ; twites seen abou.t, 305 ; 
whimbrel seen at, 312. 
Baikie, on the track of the field vole, 93. 
Balcenopitera minor, 84 ; musculus, 83 ; 
horealis, 84 ; rostrata, 84 ; sibbaldii, 84. 
Balblair Wood, crossbill nests in, 22 ; 
wax wing shot at, 120. 
Ballantra, 146. 
Balnacoil, 129 ; sparrow breeding at, 127 ; 
linnet breeds at, 130 ; starling at, 144 ; 
rook driven from, 148 ; ravens near, 
151 ; tawny owl breeds near, 161 ; 
honey-buzzard killed at, 172 ; black 
scoter near, 195 ; little gull at, 231 ; 
pomatorhine skua seen at, 235 ; eel 
at, 293. 
Balnakeil, little grebe breeds near, 2-16 ; 
Bay, lesser launce in, 278. 
Banff, 61, 83 ; hammer-headed shark 
from, 253; grey uotidanus in Museum 
of, 254 ; small-spotted dog-fish taken 
off, 254. 
Banffshire. See Edward. 
Bank's oar fish, 272. 
Bantock, keeper at Dunrobin, 110, 169 ; 
on heronry near Golspie, 181. 
Barbastelle, 70. 
Barcaldine (Argyllshire), beruacle goose 
preserved at, 186. 
Barnyards, cole tit at, 114. 
Barra Head and its Bird Life, 240 note. 
Barrock, rookery at, 151. 
Barrogill Castle, 2, 54 ; song-thrush at, 
99 ; blackbird at, 101 ; redbreast at, 
108 ; willow wren at, 111 ; attempts 
at a rookery there, 150 ; snowy owl 
preserved at, 163; stuffed albino hen- 
harrier at, 165; merlin shot at, 176; 
black game from, 206. 
Bartramia longicauda, 222. 
Basse, 258. 
Bat, long-ea,red, 70. 
Battery Park, Helmsdale, white-fronted 
goose shot at, 308. 
Beauly Pirth, sprat at, 292. 
Beaver, 66 ; European, 91. 
Bee-eater, 157. 
Beg, Strath, 56. 
