INDEX. 
325 
Gillies, Donald, 212. 
Gilmour, John, lighthouse-keeper, 3, 122. 
Gilthea.], 25!), 
Girnigoe, old castle of, 54. 
Glasbhein, meaning of, 17; 30, 34; ptar- 
migan on, 203. 
Glas-leag-beg, 30. 
Glas-leag-mohr, 30. 
Glencassley, young osprey shot at in 
1881, 178 ; slow worm in, 249 ; great- 
crested newt at, 2.50 ; wild cat killed at, 
303; polecat trapped at, in 1885, .303. 
Glen Coul, 36 ; doubtful egg of whini- 
brel from, 225 ; sea bream caught in, 
260 ; herring ascends, 292. 
Glen Dhu, 36 ; otter in, 79 ; fox in, 76 ; 
herring ascends, 292. 
Glen, Dunbeath, bullfinch in, 133. 
Glen Loth, a polecat killed in, 1881, 303 ; 
■wolf killed in, 65. 
Glenrossal, wood-wren at. 111 ; migra- 
tion of redwing seen at, 99 ; ti'ee pijjit 
at, 118; bullfinch at, 133 note; tree 
pipit increased about, 304 ; water-vole 
killed at, in 1886, 304 \ starlings breed- 
ing at, in 1886, 305 ; great-spotted 
woodpecker seen at, 1886, 306 ; eagles 
troublesome at, 307 ; ptarmigan seen 
near, 311 ; water-rail seen at, 311. 
Globiccphalm melas, 86. 
"Gloops," 47, 49. 
Gneiss, Hebridean, 31. 
Goat, 67, 08. 
Goberneasgach, 35, 42, 60. 
Goh'ms minutus, 267 ; niger, 267 ; rhodo- 
pierus, 267 ; riithensparri, 267. 
Goby, black, 267 ; two-spotted, 267 • 
white, 267. 
Godwit, bar-tailed, 21, 224 ; black-tailed, 
225. 
Goe, red, 48 ; the ashy, 49 ; wife's, 49. 
Gold-crest, 109. 
Golden-eye, 192. 
Goldfinch, 124. 
Goldsinny, 273 ; Jago's, 273. 
Golspie, 83 ; parish of, 22 ; water-shrew 
at, 72 ; black rat near, 91 ; wood-wren 
at, 111 ; hoopoe taken at, 158 ; scops- 
eared owl shot at, 163 ; velvet scoter 
at, 194 ; Sclavonian grebe taken in 
garden at, 246 ; basse near, 258 ; lump- 
sucker taken at, 267 ; sprats caught I 
off, 292 ; sunfish caught ofT, 296. ! 
Golspie Burn, colony of martins on, 123. 
Golly, Glen, 42. I 
Goosander, 195. 
Goose, grey-lag, at Loch Sheanaskaig, 29; 
solan, 62; grey-lag, 183, 308; bean, 
185; white-fronted, 185, 309; brent, 
185, 309 ; bernacle, 186. 
Gordon, Rev. Dr. George of Birnie, 158, 
164; his Lint of Fish, etc. etc., of the 
Provivce of Moray, 6 ; records boar 
fish, 261 ; on pogge, 266 ; on wolf -fish, 
268; records butter-fish, 269; on cap- 
ture of deal-fish, 272 ; records great 
pipe fish, 295. 
Gordon, Sir Robert, Bart., 5, 65, 66, 89 ; 
his Historyof tlieEarldomof Svtherland, 
5, 65, 89 ; on capercaillie, 206. 
Gordon, Rev. Walter, on plain bonito, 
264. 
Gordon, William, on the first black 
grouse in Helmsdale, 205. 
Gordonbush, 22 ; sparrow not seen at, 
127 ; heronry at, 181. 
Goshawk, 170. 
Grampus, 69, 86. 
Grangemouth, grey plover at, 213 note. 
Grann Stackach, 30. 
Grasses, 31 note ; " deer's hair," 24 ; 
" cotton," 25 ; " mossing," 25. 
Gray, A., 138. 
Gray, Robert, 6 ; his Birds of the West of 
Scotland, 1871, 6; on the whin-chat, 
104 ; on the hawfinch, 127 ; mentions 
rosey pastor, 145 ; on the wryneck, 
156 ; on scops-eared owl, 163 ; on the 
goshawk, 170 ; on the bittern, 182 ; 
on the knot, 220 ; on ivory gull, 230 ; 
on BuiTon's skua, 2.36 ; on Brunnich's 
guillemot, 240 ; on great northern 
diver, 243. 
Great Minch, 13. 
Great Smoo Cave, swift breeds in, 153. 
Grebe, great-crested, 245 ; red-necked, 
245; little, 246; Sclavonian, 246. 
Greenfinch, 126, 129. 
Greenshank, 35, 56, 223, 312. 
Greig, lighthouse-keeper, 3, 53. 
Grey seal, frequents rocks in Sutherland, 
21. 
Grey notidanus, 254. 
Grieve's The Great Auk, etc. etc., 62 
note. 
Griffith, H., .306. 
Grosbeak, pine, 133. 
Grouse, red, 25, 204 ; Pallas sand, 200 ; 
black, 205. 
Grudie, the river, 33, 36. 
