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idandus, 173, 308 ; peregrinus, 174 ; 
subbuteo, 175 ; tinnunculiis, 176. 
Falcon, Greenland, 173, 308 ; Iceland, 
173, 308; peregrine, 174; breeds on 
Handa, 39. 
Falmouth, 43. 
Faroe, gold-crest at, 109. 
Far-out Head, rock pipit on, 118 ; mea- 
dow pipit on, 117 ; a rabbit on, 95. 
Farr, flow district in parish of, 25 ; 
parish of, 28 ; coot in parish of, 208 ; 
red-throated diver breeding about, 
244. 
Fashven, 31. 
Father Lasher, 265. 
Faunal areas of Scotland, 59. 
Felis catii.s, 75, 303. 
Fern, royal, 35. 
Fe.stiica ovina, 31. 
Fiag Burn, heronry on island of, 181. 
Field, The, 9 ; on the blackbird, 101 ; on 
the migration of the redstart, 106 ; on 
the blackcap warbler, 108 ; on tlie Ice- 
land falcon, 173 ; on the nest of cor- 
morant, 179 ; on salmon, 285. 
Fieldfare, 99. 
Fiera.fifer dentatus, 277. 
Findlemore, meadow pipit at, 118. 
Fingal, 66. 
" Finners," 84. 
Fir, Scotch, 143 ; rooks' nests on, 149. 
Firth Seal in Dornoch Firth, 21. 
Fish, angel, 255. 
Fishery Board of Scotland, 19 note; 
and torpedo from Lossiemouth, 255. 
"Flapper," 165. 
Fleet, the, 26. 
Fleming, 84 ; on rock-dove, 199 ; on the 
Lavellan, 248 ; records Greenland 
shark, 255. 
Flounder, 2s0. 
Flower, Professor, 83, 85, 305. 
" Flow," meaning of, 24. 
Fluke, craig, 279 ; sail, 279. 
Flycatcher, pied, 121 ; spotted, 120. 
Foinnebhein, 30. 
Forltbeard, greater, 276 ; lesser, 277. 
Fortrose, thrasher sharlc taken at, 253. 
Forsinard, 60 ; Leach's petrel taken at, 
237. 
Forss, missel-thrush breeds at, 98 ; long- 
tailed tit at, 113 ; rooks at, 149 ; 
rookery at, 150. 
Forss, Hill of, merlin shot at, 175. 
Forss, the river, 19. 
Forth, faunal area of, 59. 
Foumart, 65, 75, 78. 
Fox, 67, 69, 76 ; in 1630 A.D., 65. 
Fraser, Procurator-Fiscal, nephew of, 
157. 
Fratercida arctica, 242. 
Frazer, lighthouse-keeper, 3. 
Freswick, 54 ; links of, 96 ; snowy owl 
obtained at, 162 ; Greenland falcon 
trapped in Moss of, 173 ; red-breasted 
merganser shot at, 197 ; albino com- 
mon snipe shot at, 217 ; godwit killed 
at, 225. 
Fringilla ccelehs, 129 ; montifringilla, 129, 
305. 
Frog, common, 251. 
"Frost-bite," golden plover liable to, 
212. 
Fidica atra, 208. 
Fuligula cristata, 192, 310 ; ferina, 191, 
310 ; marila, 191. 
Fulmarvs glacialis, 238. 
"Futteret," 78. 
Gadus (eglefinus, 274 ; luscus, 275 ; mer- 
langus, 274 ; minutus, 274 ; morrhua, 
274 ; poUachius, 275 ; virens, 275. 
Gadwall, 189. 
Gaelic names in Sutherland and Caith- 
ness, 17. 
Galium aparine, 31 ; venim, 31. 
Gallinago ccelestis, 217 ; gallinula, 217 ; 
major, 217. 
Gallinula chloropus, 208. 
Gannet, 180. 
Garbh Island, brown rat absent in, 92 ; 
puffin rare on, 242. 
Garfish, 283. 
Gare fowl, 239. 
Garganey, 190. 
Garnsary, badgers killed at, 303. 
Garrulus glandarius, 146. 
Gastrosteus aculeatus, 270 ; spinachia, 
271. 
Gatherer, J. , on ballan wrasse, 272 ; ob- 
tains cook wrasse, 273. 
Gecinus viridis, 156. 
Geikie, Professor, 8. 
Geise, rookery at, 150. 
Gentiana campestris, 31. 
Georgemas Junction, 52. 
Gibson, lighthouse-keeper, 3. 
Gibson, J. , Curator, Edinburgh Museum, 
221. 
Gilchrist, takes white-tailed eagle, 169. 
