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INDEX. 
Brama rail, 262. 
Brambling, 129, 305 ; 1860-61 famous for, 
in Scotland, 130. 
Branchiostoma lanceolata, 297. 
Brander, James, 300. 
Brawl, 16 note - ; missel-thrush breeds 
at, 98 ; rooks at, 149 ; sparrow-hawk 
at, 171 ; merlin shot at, 176 ; bean 
goose shot at, 185 ; redshank at, 223. 
Brawl Castle, 44, 54 ; red-deer heads in, 
88 ; starling abundant at, 145 ; rooks 
persecuted at, 150 ; goshawk preserved 
at, 170; sparrow-hawk at, 171 ; merlin 
shot at, 176 ; great snipe preserved at, 
217. 
Bream, black sea, 259 ; common sea, 260 ; 
Ray's sea, 262. 
Brill, 279. 
Brimms Ness, 46. 
Brims, Mr., factor for Rattar, 313. 
British Museum, eagle (epauletted) in, 
from Berriedale, 168 ; nest of black- 
throated diver in, 244 ; Caithness sperm 
whale in, 85 ; Drummond's echiodon 
in, 277. 
" Brochs," 62, 66. 
Brora, 21, 26 ; pied flycatcher near, 121 ; 
eagles captured near, 167 ; swans on 
loch, 186 ; quail at, 202 ; sanderling 
seen at, 221 ; lesser tern at, 228 ; doree 
taken at, 262 ; garfish taken at, 283 ; 
sprat caught ofi', 292 ; black-winged 
stilt shot at, 311. 
Brora Strath, starling in, 144; slow-worm 
in, 249. 
Brora, the river, 24 ; frequented by 
otters, 79 ; great northern diver from, 
243 ; salmon in, 284 ; eel in, 293. 
Brosmius hrosme, 277. 
Brough, 48. 
Brown, Alex., short-eared owl with, 161. 
Brown, on Greenland shark, 255. 
" Brulochans," 24, 44. 
"Brumple," 269. 
Buachaille, 37. 
Bubo ignavus, 163. 
Buchan, Bullers of (Aberdeen), 40. 
Buchan, fishes of, 5. 
Buchanan-White, Dr., of Perth, his 
faunal areas, 59. 
Buckie, angel fish caught by fishermen 
of, 255. 
Buckley, On the Birds of the East of 
Sutherland, 7. 
Bufo vidgaris, 251. 
I Bulgie Island, 37 ; brown rat absent in, 
92 ; kittiwake roosts on, 234. 
Bullfinch, 129, 132. 
Bullhead, four-horned, 265 ; river, 265 ; 
short-spined sea, 265. 
Bunting, black-headed, 135 ; common, 
135, 144 ; reed, 137 ; snow, 137 ; note 
on the nesting of snow-bunting, by L. 
N. Hinxman, 140 ; feeds on Saxi- 
frarja oppositifolia, 143 ; tawny, 130. 
Burgh ead, deal-fish at, 271. 
Bustard, little, 209. 
Bvteo vidgaris, 165. 
Butter-fish, 269. 
Buzzard, common, 165 ; honey-, 172, 307; 
rough-legged, 166. 
Byne, Mr., 135. 
Cadell, H. M., The Geology of Sidher- 
land, 5. 
Caithness, Earl of, 2, 50, 54 ; useful map 
of, 5 ; Guide-books to, 8 ; birds killed 
in and preserved by Mr. L. Dunbar, 
Brawl, 7 ; coast-line of, 13 ; area of, 
16 ; Gaelic names in, 17 ; rivers of , 19; 
physical features of, 43 ; pavement of, 
45 ; faunal position of, 59 ; ill adapted 
for deer, 88. 
Calda Burn, red-throated diver on, 245. 
Caledonla)i Zoology, 248. 
Caen, Greenland falcon shot at, 308. 
Calidris arenaria, 221, 311. 
Gallionymus lyra, 268. 
Calluna vidgaris, 31. 
Galtha palustris, 142. 
Calva Island, grey -lag goose now absent 
from, 184. 
Cambridgeshire, sparrow in (reference 
to), 127. 
Cameron, E. S., of Barcaldine, on brent 
goose, widgeon, and pintail, 309. 
Ganis familiaris, 67, 69 ; lupus, 69, 76 ; 
vulpes, 67, 69. 
Canisbay, 2, 49, 51 note, 53, 88; turtle- 
dove shot near, 200. 
Canisp, 28, 31, 33. 
Cantharus lineatus, 259. 
Cape Wrath, 30, 32, 59, 60, 82 ; missel- 
thrush perhaps bred at, 97 ; ravens at, 
151 ; white-tailed eagle near, 168 ; 
migration schedule from, 174; record of 
gannets at, 180 ; golden plover common 
at, 212 ; dunlin common near, 218 ; 
kittiwake breeds near, 234 ; stormy 
