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INDEX. 
Mingulay, 39. 
Minnow, 282. 
Mole, 71. 
Molva vulgaris, 276. 
Monodon, monoccruft, 85. 
Montagu's sucker, 267. 
Moray, 14 ; watershed of, 29 ; faunal 
area of, 59 ; water system of, 60. 
Moray Firth, 59 ; fishes in, 252, et seq. ; 
surmullet taken in, 259 ; sea-bream in, 
260 ; tunny in, 263 ; grey gurnard in, 
266 ; shanny in, 2G9 ; cod, haddock, 
and power in, 274 ; pollack common in, 
275 ; hake in, 276 ; brill in, 279 ; sole 
in, 280 ; tench in, 282 ; lancelet in, 
297. 
More, A. G. , On the Distribution of Birds 
in Great Britain, etc., 1865, 6 ; on tlie 
white-throat, 108 ; on Ray's wagtail, 
117 ; on short-eared owl, 160 ; on 
water-rail, 206 ; on Brunnich's guille- 
mot, 241. 
Morrison, Hew, F.S.A. Scot., 8. 
Morven, 44, 45, 56 ; ptarmigan on, 
203. 
Morvich, roller obtained at, 157 ; scops- 
eared owl shot at, 163 ; black game at, 
205. 
Motacilla alba, 116; flava, 117; lugubris, 
116. 
Motella tricirrata, 276. 
Mound, The, linnet at, 130 ; swans at, 
186 ; the little grebe at, 246. 
Mouse, house, 91 ; wood, 91. 
Mugil chela, 270. 
Muir's, T. S., Caithness and Part of 
Orkney, 5. 
Mullachgrah Island, 30. 
Mullet, lesser grey, 270. 
Mullus barbatus, 259. 
Munro, J., 78 ; captures greenfinch, 126; 
shoots black -throated diver, 244. 
Murchison, Sir Roderick, 8. 
Murray, keeper at Cashel-dhu, 154. 
Murray, David, Gruinard House, Ault- 
bea, 286 note. 
Muscardinus avellanarius, 91. 
Muscicapa grisola, 120 ; atricapilla, 121. 
decumanus, 92 ; minutus, 91 ; imis- 
ctdus, 91 ; rattus, 91 ; sylvaticus, 91. 
Musgrave, shoots spotted crake, 311. 
Mussel-scalp, 21. 
Mustela enninea, 78 ; putorius, 78, 303 ; 
vulgaris, 77. 
Mustelus vulgaris, 253. 
Myosotis arvensis, 31. 
Myxine glutinosa, 296. 
Nairn, 61. 
Narwhal, 85. 
Naucrates ductor, 261. 
Naver, destruction of seals at mouth of, 
82. 
Naver Bay, 20. 
Naver, Strath, nests of missel-thrush in, 
97 ; long-tailed tit in, 113. 
Naver, the river, 26 ; ravens on, 152 ; 
heron breeds on island on, 181 ; sal- 
mon in, 284. 
Navidale, starved rock-doves at, 198. 
Nei'ophis lumbriciformis, 295 ; ophidian, 
295. 
Nessletter, 46 ; jackdaw at, 147. 
New Stat. Account of Scotland (1841), 
5, 8 ; list of Caithness birds in, 62; on 
mammalia, 69 ; on the wild-cat, 75 ; 
on red deer, 88 ; on the squirrel, 90 ; 
on the great grey shrike, 119 ; on 
pheasant, 201. 
Newt, palmated, 250 ; smooth, 250 ; 
great-crested, 250. 
Newton, Professor, of Cambridge, 7, 209 ; 
on harlequin duck, 193; "Ibis," 200 
note ; egg of little bustard in collec- 
tion of, 210. 
New Zealand, 290. 
Niohol, Mr., keeper, shoots whooper at 
Westfield, 187.; 
Nicholson on the Lavellan, 248. 
Nicolson, Mr., vii. 
Nightjar, 154, 306. 
Noctule, 70. 
Northern Chronicle, on the hoopoe, 158 ; 
records ivory gull at Thurso, 230. 
North Head of Wick, glaucous gull killed 
near, 234. 
North Rona, 13 ; Leach's petrel breeds 
on, 237 note. 
North Sea, 13. 
Norway, migrants to, 52 ; eels taken 
salted to, 294. 
Norwegian sailors, eels a prize for, 293. 
Noss Head, 3, 84 ; lighthouse, 53 ; mar- 
tin breeds at, 123. 
Notidanus griseus, 254. 
Nuvfienius arquata, 226 ; phasopus, 225, 
312. 
Nyctale acadica, 163; tengmalmi, 163. 
Nyctea scandiaca, 162. 
