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INDEX. 
Oxyria remform,is, 142. 
Oykel Bridge, 13, 22, 29, 41 ; skylark 
about, 143 ; dunlin breeds above, 218; 
great black-backed gull breeding at, 
233. 
Oykel, the river^ 13, 15, 29, 41, 59; com- 
mon bunting on, 135 ; river salmon in, 
285. 
Oyster-catcher, 49, 215 ; fond of mussel- 
scalp, 21. 
Pagellus centrodontus, 260. 
Pagophila brachy tarsus, 230 note ; ebur- 
nea, 229. 
Pagrus auratus, 259. 
"Paidle cock," 266. 
Palmer scarf, 179. 
Pandion halimtus, 177. 
Partridge, 201. 
Parus britannicus, 114. 
Parus cceruleus, 115 ; major, 113. 
Passer domesticus, 127 ; montanus, 128. 
Pastor roseus, 145, 305. 
Pastor, rosey, 145, 305. 
Peach, Benjamin N., 3, 31 note, 71, 140; 
on the black water-vole, 92 ; on the 
red-start, 107 ; on the snow-bunting, 
138 ; list of Alpine plants by, 142 note ; 
sees sheldrake in Kyle of Durness, 
188 ; notices smooth hound, 253 ; on 
porbeagle, 253 ; on basking shark, 
1 253 ; on picked dogfish as food, 254 ; 
on Greenland shark, 255 ; on angel 
fish, 255 ; records starry ray, 256 ; re- 
cords sturgeon, 257 ; records basse, 
258 ; on surmullet, 259 ; on sea bream, 
260 ; on father lasher, 265 ; on red 
gurnard, 265; on grey gurnard, 266; 
on pogge, 266 ; finds shanny, 269 ; 
records butter-fish, 269 ; records vivi- 
parous blenny, 269 ; on lesser grey 
mullet, 270 ; observes nests of stickle- 
back, 271 ; on Bank's-oar fish, 272 ; on 
ballan wrasse, 272 ; on power cod, 274 ; 
on coal fish, 275; on rocklings, 276 ; in- 
cludes lesser forkbeard, 277 ; on tur- 
bot, 278 ; on the launce, 278 ; men- 
tions Eckstrom's topknot, 279 ; men- 
tions sail fluke, 279 ; obtains solenette, 
280 ; on garfish, 283 ; on pike in the 
Wick, 283 ; records argentine, 284 : 
on trout, 288 ; on shad, 292 ; on pil- 
chard, 292 ; on the anchovy, 292 ; on 
Caithness names for eel, 293 ; records 
pipe fish (straight -nosed and worm). 
295 ; mentions sunfish, 296 ; records 
small lamprey, 296. 
Peat-mosses of Sutherland, 87. 
"Pelcher," 270. 
Pennant, J. , Tour in Scotland and Voyage 
to the Hebrides (1774), 4; A Tour in 
Scotland (1769), 4; on the water-shrew, 
73 ; on the Lavellan, 248. 
Pentland Firth, 15, 26, 28, 46; Green- 
land shark in, 255. 
Pentland Skerries, 50 ; visited by Har- 
vie-Brown, 2 ; lighthouse-keepers at, 
3 ; Migration Reports from, 9 ; men- 
tioned by Low as resort of seal in 1813, 
81 ; black red-start obtained from, 107 ; 
pied flycatchers at, 122 ; jackdaw not 
observed on, 147 ; eider duck's eggs 
from, 194 ; corn-crake breeds on, 208 ; 
oyster-catcher abundant on, 215 ; dun- 
lin tame on, 219 ; Arctic tern on, 227 ; 
common tern breeds on, 228.; stormy 
petrel breeding on, 237 ; little auk on, 
242. 
Perca fluviatilis, 258. 
Perdix cinerea, 201. 
Peregrine falcon, 54, 174. 
Pernis apivorus, 172, 307. 
Petrel, 144 ; Leach's, 237 ; stormy, 237 ; 
fulmar, 238. 
Petromyzon branchialis, 296 ; marinus, 
296. 
Phalacrocorax carbo, 62, 178 ; graculus, 
62, 179. 
Phalarope, grey, 216 ; red-necked, 216. 
Phalaropus fuUcarius, 216 ; hyperboreus, 
216. 
Phasianus colchicus, 201, 310. 
Pheasant, 66, 201, 310. 
Phillip, Mr. Colin, 18. 
Pkleum arenarium, 31. 
Phoca qroenlandica, 21, 81, 303 ; vitulina, 
21, 38, 51, 81. 
Phocaina communis, 86. 
Phycis blennioidts, 276. 
Phylloscopus collybita, 110; sihilatrix, 
111, 304; irochiliis, 110, 304. 
Physeter macrocephalus, 85. 
Pica rustica, 146, 305. 
Picus major, 155, 306 ; minor. 155. 
Pig, 67. ' 
Pigeon, rock, 57 ; Tegetmeier's work on, 
11. 
Pike, 283. 
Pilchard, 292. 
Pilot fish, 261. 
