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INDEX, 
Gruinard, the river, fishing of, 286. 
Gualin, 33, 60 ; marten at, 77 ; osprey 
once breeding near, 177. 
G'uaphalium supinum, 142. 
Guardian office, H. Osborne in, 12. 
Guillemot, 56 ; on Handa, 39 ; at the 
Clett, 47 ; common, 239 ; Brunnich's, 
240 ; black, 241. 
Gull, black-headed, 25, 230 ; on Handa, 
39; great black-backed, 25, 54, 233; 
lesser black-backed, 25, 54, 232 ; her- 
ring, 25, 232 ; colonising power of, 54 ; 
"teaser," 228 ; ivory, 229 ; Sabine's, 
229 ; common, 231 ; little, 231 ; glau- 
cous, 234 ; Iceland, 234. 
Gulls breed on the flovrs, 25. 
Gunn, Dr., 83. 
Gunn, John, on trout, 313. 
Gunther, Dr., purchases eagle from 
Berriedale, 168. 
Gurnard, red, 265 ; streaked, 265 ; grey, 
266 ; sapphirine, 266. 
Gurney, on harlequin duck, 193. 
Haddington, Earl of, purchases Ameri- 
can bittern, 183. 
Hair-tail, 261. 
Hake, 276. 
Haliatus alhicilla, 168, 307. 
Halichcerus gryphus, 21, 82. 
Halkirk, 44, 209 ; redshank at, 223. 
Halladale, river, 26 ; valley of, 45 ; wolf 
killed at, 65. 
Hancock takes ptarmigan's eggs on Ben 
Clibrick (1849), 203; egg of green 
shank with, 224. 
Handa, vi, 37, 65 ; described, 38 ; brown 
rat in, 92 ; rabbit introduced on, 95 ; 
starling abundant at, 144 ; peregrine 
falcon at, 174 ; cormorant rare on, 179 ; 
bernacle goose at, 186 ; sheldrake rare 
on, 188 ; common tern questionably 
near, 228 ; great black-backed gull 
breeds on, 233 ; kittiwake breeds at, 
234 ; Richardson's skua from, 236 ; 
razor-bill abundant on, 239 ; puffin on, 
242 ; guillemot abundant on, 239. 
Handbook to Thurso, etc. etc., 55. 
Hardcastle, kills 32 partridges at Inch- 
nadamph, 1869, 202. 
Hare, in 1630 A.D., 65; common, 93; 
mountain, 94. 
Harelda glacialis, 193. 
Harp seal, shot in Sutherland, 21. 
Harrier, hen, 164; marsh, 164. 
Harris, Sound of, 48 ; straight-nosed pipe- 
fish in, 295. 
Harrow Park, cole tit at, 114; fly-catcher 
shot at, 121. 
Harting on the nightjar in Caithness, 
155 ; on harlequin duck, 193 ; on 
dotterel, 212 ; on the ivory gull, 230 
note 2. 
Harvie-Brown, J. A., Lecture on the Ferae 
Naturae of the British Isles (1875), 7 ; 
On Birds found Breeding in Sutherland 
(1875), 7 ; Supplementary Notes on the 
Birds found Breeding in Sutherland 
(1877), 7 ; The History of the Squirrel in 
Scotland, 65 note, 90; The Capercaillie 
in Scotland, 206. 
Haskeir, pintail's nest got on, 190. 
Hawfinch, 126. 
Hebrides, harp-seal on, 82; faunal area 
of, 59 ; song-thrush on the, 98. 
Heddle, Professor, of St. Andrews, 
Geognosy and 3Iineralogy of Suther- 
land and Caithness (1880-H4), 8; 18,43; 
on the track of the field vole, 93. 
Hedgehog, 71. 
Hedge-sparrow, 112. 
Helmsdale, 23 ; tree-sparrow at, 128 ; 
rough-legged buzzard from, 166 ; rock- 
doves seen at, 198 ; green sandpiper 
shot at, 222 ; black-tailed godwit 
shot near, 225; quails obtained at, 
310. 
Helmsdale Strath, rabbits in, 95 ; kite 
seen in, 172 ; honey-buzzard shot in, 
172 ; osprey in, 1883, 178 ; black game 
in, 205. 
Helmsdale, the river, 15, 20, 26, 60; 
flounder in, 280; salmon in, 284. 
Hempriggs, 55 ; missel-thrush breeds at, 
98 ; redbreast at, 108 ; flycatcher at, 
] 21 ; starlings abundant at, 145 ; 
magpie builds at, 146 ; rooks at, 151 ; 
razor-bill near, 239 ; red-necked grebe 
on loch at, 245. 
Hempriggs House, 54. 
Henderson, A., of Stemster, 150; intro- 
duces pheasant, 310 ; on trout, 313. 
Henderson, Captain John, General View 
of the Agriculture of Caithness (1815), 4. 
Heracleum sphondylium, 31. 
Heron, 181 ; colony of, at the Ord, 56 ; 
buff-backed, 182. 
Herring, 291. 
Hieracium, 31. 
