INDEX. 
327 
Highland and Agricidlural Society Trans- 
actions, 1880, 15. 
Hill, J., banker, 308 ; on the rock-dove, 
198. 
Himantopus candklus, 216, 311. 
Hinxman, Lionel N., 3, 31 note, 138 note ^, 
139 ; note on nesting of the snow 
bunting by, 140. 
Hippoglossoides Umandoides, 279. 
Hippoglossus vulgaris, 278. 
Hirundo rustica, 122. 
Hobby, 175. 
Hoematopus ostralegus, 215. 
Hog, 69. 
Hog-fish, 296. 
Holborn Head, 3, 45, 46, 53 ; ravens 
breed at, 152 ; swift at, 153 ; heron 
breeding at, 181 ; ringed plover at, 
214 ; dunlin observed near, 219 ; guille- 
mots at, 240. 
Holborn Ness, jackdaw at, 147. 
Holcus lanatus, 31. 
Holibut, 278 ; sold for £4 in London, 
278. 
Honey-buzzard (female), shot in Uppat 
Woods, 22. 
Hoopoe, 157, 306. 
Horse, 67, 68. 
Horsefish, 271. 
Horse Island, 30. 
Houstoun, Mr., of Kintradwell, 66, 72, 
82 ; shoots harp seal, 21 ; kills a harp 
seal, 81 ; on deer-trap, 88; on the 
white hare, 95 ; on the tree-creeper, 
115 ; on the hoopoe, 157 ; shoots 
grey phalarope, 216 ; introduces 
perch, 258 ; captures angler fish, 1884, 
264 ; on the piper, 266 ; records sea 
snail, 267 ; on the wolf-fish, 268 ; re- 
cords goby (two-spotted ?), 267 ; men- 
tions butter-fish, 269 ; records vivi- 
parous blenny, 269 ; on ballan wrasse, 
272 ; on garfish, 283 ; on lamprey, 296. 
Hoy, sand-stones of, 43 ; " Old Man of," 
46. 
Huna, 2, 52 ; jackdaw at, 147 ; oyster- 
catcher abundant at, 215. 
Huna hotel, 49. 
Hyperoodon latifrons, 85 ; rostratum, 85, 
304. 
Inchnadamph, 40, 41 ; descriptive of, 
35 ; water-shrew at, 73 ; marten at, 
77 ; polecat at, 78 ; hare at, 94 ; song- 
thrush appears at in 1881, 98; red- 
start absent from, 106 ; a tree pipit at, 
118 ; swallow absent from in 1885, 122; 
martin common at, 123; greenfinch in 
garden at, 126 ; sparrow appears at, in 
1882, 127; chaffinch at, 129; linnet 
at, 130 ; twite breeds at, 131 ; twite 
at, 132 ; skylark absent at, 144 ; star- 
ling absent at, 1885, 145; rook does 
not build at, 148 ; cuckoo at, 158 ; 
ring-dove at, 197 ; rock-doves at inn 
of, 199 ; partridges seen at, in 18,34, 
201 ; decrease and recovery of grouse 
at, 204 ; lapwing near, 214. 
Innes, D., slioots bernacle at Sandside, 
186. 
Innes, Fred. S. Bentley, of Thrumster, 
182 ; shoots Pallas sand grouse, 200. 
Inver, the river, 36 ; water-shrew on, 
73 ; adder seen beside, 247 ; salmon 
of, 286 ; eel in, 293. 
Inverness, 61, 129, 157 ; tunny killed 
near, 263. 
Inverness Courier on bL^ck-tailed godwit, 
225 ; on capercaillie, .302. 
Inverness Field Club, 138 note. 
Inverpolly, deer forest of, 30; knot and 
sanderling from, 311. 
Invershin, 90 ; shad taken at, 292 ; mag- 
pie at, 305 ; colony of jackdaws, 306. 
Irby, Major, 9 ; takes nest of black- 
throated diver, 244. 
"Irishman," hill so called, 23. 
Jackdaw, 146, .306. 
Jardine, Sir W., Bart., 5, 230; on Ray's 
wagtail, 117 ; observes osjjreys in 1834 
over the Laxford, 177 ; shoots scaup, 
191 ; includes golden-eye, 192. See also 
298. 
Jay, 146. 
" Jeckedybeet," 104. 
Jennins, 189 ; on grey-lag goose, 184 ; 
on brent goose, 185; omits bernacle 
goose, 186 ; kills great-crested grebe, 
245. 
Joass, Rev. Dr. J. M. , Golspie, 66 ; on 
the black rat, 91 ; on the roller, 157 ; 
on the black scoter, 194 ; on the 
turtle-dove, 200 ; records basse, 268 ; 
records blenny, 269 ; obtains fifteen- 
spined stickleback, 271 ; mentions min- 
now, 282 ; on harp seal, 303 ; on rosej^ 
pastor, 305. 
John o' Groat Journal, 11 ; H. Osborne 
employed in office of, 12 ; on mam- 
