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INDEX. 
218 ; great-crested newt at, 250 ; por- 
beagle caught at, 253 ; sea Ijream 
caught at, 260 ; haddock in bay of, 
274 ; ling common at, 276 ; sea-trout 
in, 286 ; fossak of, 287. 
Loch Kirkaig, 37. 
Laoghal (Loj'al), 15, 36 ; goldfinch 
at, 125 ; grey-lag goose leaves, 184. 
Laxford, 15, 37, 102 ; meadow pipit 
at, 118 ; tree-sparrow breeds at, 128. 
Letteressee, 42; barn owl seen at, 159. 
Lurgan, 30. 
• Maddy (or Maedie ?), golden-eye at, 
193. 
• Meadie (Durness), 35, 213. 
Merkland, 15, 35, 60 ; charr in, 290. 
Migdale, 28 ; long-eared owl at, 160 ; 
common tern breeds at, 227 ; sand- 
wich tern seen at, 229 ; pike in, 283. 
More, 15, 35, 42, 45, 56, 60. 
Mulach-Corry, golden plover com- 
mon at, 212 ; little grebe shot at, 246 ; 
trout of, 287. 
na-Choir, 60. 
na-Clar, 15, 27. 
-na-Clashfearn, heronry of, 181. 
na-Cuen, 15, 27. 
Naver, 15, 26, 27 ; missel- thrush at, 
97; buzzard breeding at, 165; widgeon 
at, 191. 
Owskeich, 30. 
Raa, 30. 
Rimisdale, 15, 27. 
Sandwood, 37, 92 ; slieldrake rare 
at, 188 ; lesser launce in, 278. 
Sarclet, red-necked grebe on, 245 ; 
Sabine's gull near, 229 ; bar-tailed 
godwit in, 224. 
Seye, trout of, 288. 
Sgearach, trout of, 287. 
Sheanaskaig, 29 ; lesser black- 
backed gull at, 233. 
Shin, 15, 26, 42 ; descriptive of, 33, 
35 ; wood-mouse at, 91 ; whin-chat at, 
104 ; coal tit at, 114 ; tree-sparrow at, 
128 ; yellow-hammer at, 136 ; swifts 
at, 153 ; heronry of, 181 ; grey-lag 
goose now absent from, 184 ; swans at, 
186 ; widgeon at, 191 ; goosander on, 
196; oyster-catcher on, 215; dunlin 
breeds near, 218 ; decrease of great 
black-backed gull on, 233 ; adder near, 
247 ; charr in, 290 ; Greenland falcon 
seen on, 308 ; grey-lag goose breeding 
on, 308. 
Loch Shurrin, 288. 
Slam, 36 ; sand-martin at, 124. 
Stack, 15, 35. 
Stemster, black-headed gull at, 231 ; 
sedge warbler at, 304. 
Urigill, 15, 35 ; grey-lag goose de- 
serts, 184 ; dunlin breeds at, 218 ; 
lizard about, 248 ; charr in, 290 ; grey- 
lag goose breeding on, 308 ; pochard 
on, 310. 
Veyattie, 14, 15 ; charr in, 290. 
Watten, 44, 52 ; tufted duck seen 
at, 192 ; trout of, 288. 
Loiseleuria procumhens, 142. 
Lolium perenne, 31. 
Lomvia troile, 239 ; hrunnichii, 240. 
London, Zoological Society of, 230. 
Lophius piscatorius, 243, 264. 
Lophophanes cristatus, 115. 
Lossiemouth, stock-dove at, 199 note ; 
torpedo at, 255 ; black fish taken at, 
262 ; double-spotted sucker taken at, 
271; ballan wrasse from, 272 ; cook 
wrasse taken at, 273. 
Loth, 72 ; parish of, 24. 
Lothbeg Burn, 26 ; frequented by otter, 
79. 
Lothbeg Point, 82. 
Lotus colniculatus, 31. 
Low, 84 ; his Fauna Orcadensis, 81 ; on 
the seal, 81. 
Loxia curvirostra, 134 ; leucoptera, 134 ; 
pityopsittacus, 133. 
Lumpsuecker, 266. 
Lunn, 3. 
Lutra vulgaris, 79. 
Luzula campestris, 31 ; spicata, 142. 
Lybster, long-tailed tit at, 113. 
Lycopodium alpinum, 142 ; selago, 142. 
Lyth, parrot crossbill at, 133 ; rooks at, 
149. 
M'AuLAY, Peter, keeper, 283. 
M'Beath, barn owl shot by, at Dorrery, 
159. 
M 'Donald, on the areas of woodland, etc., 
' in Sutherland, 15. 
Macdonald, Captain, 85. 
Macdonald, llev. of Durness, Manu- 
scripts of, 5. 
M'Ewen, James, traps snowy owl at 
Ousdale, 163 ; traps goshawk, 170 ; 
traps Greenland falcon, 173. 
M'Gee, 3. 
