INDEX. 
329 
Lavellan, 73 ; remarks on the, 248. 
Laxford, the river, 33 ; ospreys seeu at, 
177. 
Led beg, 32. 
Leeds, snowy owl in Museum at, 162 ; 
Philosophical and Literary Society, 
173. 
Leith, Mr., 209. 
Leontodon taraxacum, 31. 
Lepadogaster himacidatus, 271. 
Lepiis cuniculus, 69, 95; europceus, 93; 
variabilis, 94. 
LeuciKcus phoxinus, 282. 
Lewis, pomatorhine skua near, 235. 
Liam-na-chlaven, Locli, 27. 
Ligurinus chloris, 126. 
liigusticum scoticum, 31. 
Limosa lapponica, 224 ; melanura, 225. 
Ling, 276. 
Linota cannabina, 130 ; flavirostris, 131, 
305 ; Unaria, 131 ; ruftscens, 131. 
Linum catharticum, 31. 
Liparis montagui, 267 ; vulgaris, 267. 
Little Ferry, 20, 22, 27 ; resort of seal, 
81 ; white whale at, 85 ; kingfisher 
killed at, 156 ; swans Sit, 186 ; shel- 
drake at, 188 ; widgeofi at, 190 ; scaup 
at, 192 ; velvet scoter at, 194 ; dunlin 
seen at, 218 ; knot at, 220 ; viper 
weever taken at, 264 ; lesser launce 
at, 278. 
Lizard, Common, 248. 
Loanan Stratli, 94. 
Loanan, the river, 36 ; lapwing along, 214. 
Loch, J., An Account of the Improve- 
ments, etc., on the Estate of Sutherland 
(1820), 5, 43. 
Loch Achilty, pike caught in, 283. 
Alsh, 32 ; heronry of, 181. 
an-Hard, meaning of, 17. 
■ -an-Euair, 27. 
an-tarbhaoh-more, 60. 
Assynt, 15, 35 ; barn owl breeds at, 
159; dunlin breeds near, 219; great- 
crested newt at, 250 ; trout of, 287 ; 
charr in, 290. 
Awe, 35 ; redstart at, 106 ; short- 
eared owl on island of, 160; curlew 
around, 226 ; tame gull at, 231. 
Bad-an-eontigh, coot on, 208. 
■ Baddagyle, 30. 
Beannoch, 34, 42 ; rook at, 148 ; 
heronry of, 181. 
. Borralaigh, 36 ; black-headed gull 
at, 230. 
Loch Borrolan, 14 ; trout of, 287 ; charr 
in, 290. 
Broom, 14. 
Brora, 15, 27 ; osprey haunts, in 
1879, 178 ; heronry at, 181 ; widgeon 
at, 191 ; pheasant at, 201 ; little grebe 
breeds at, 246 ; American trout in, 
290 ; charr in, 290. 
• Cairnbawn, 37. 
Calder, 44 ; charr in, 291. 
Cama, 15, 35, 40 ; rookery at, 148, 
149 ; heronry extinct at, 181 ; charr 
in, 290. 
Choire, 23, 27. 
Coul, 37. 
Grade, Baillon's crake shot near, 
207 ; great-crested grebe on, 245. 
Craggie, 36 ; sparrow-hawk breed- 
ing at, 171 ; red-necked phalarope at, 
216. 
Crassapuil, 35 ; trout of, 288. 
Dhu, 37. 
Dionard, 36. 
Drumbeg, 42. 
Duich, 28. 
Ellag, 59. 
Eriboll, mole at, 71 ; widgeon at, 
191 ; nightjar at, 154 ; scaup absent 
at, in 1849, 192 ; eider-duck breeding 
at, 194 ; black guillemot abundant 
near, 241 ; palmated newt near, 250 ; 
garfish taken near, 283 ; shad in, 292 ; 
suufisli seen at, 296. 
— — Fewn, 14, 15 ; charr in, 290. 
Fiag, nest of white-tailed eagle on, 
169. 
Gorm, meaning of, 17 ; reed bunt- 
ing at, 137 ; hedge-sparrow at, 112 ; 
trout of, 287. 
Griam, 15, 35, 60 ; meaning of, 17 ; 
charr in, 290. 
Gruagach, merlin breeding at, 176. 
Hope, 15, 42 ; scaup absent at, in 
1849, 192. 
Inchard, 37. 
Inver, 15, 34, 36, 37, 41, 42 ; rabbit 
about, 95 ; missel-thrush's nest at, 97 ; 
song-thrush at, 98 ; blackbird common 
about, 100 ; redstart at, 106 ; red- 
breast at, 107 ; wood-wren possibly at. 
Ill ; great tit at, 113; flycatcher at, 
121 ; bullfinch at, 133 ; nightjar at, 
154 ; barn owl at, 159 ; peregrine fal- 
con at, 174 ; ring-dove at, 198 ; par- 
tridge about, 201 ; dunlin breeds at, 
