INDEX. 
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Pine trees in Sutlierland, 21. 
Pintail, 190, 309. 
Pipe fish, deep-nosed, straiglit-nosed, 
great, 295. 
Piper, 266. 
Pipistrelle, 70. 
Pipit, rock, 118; on Handa, 40; tree, 
118, 304, 
Plaice, 279. 
Plantago coronopus, 31 ; maritima, 31 ; 
media, 31. 
Pleclropliaiies nivalis, 137. 
Pl&uronectes cy7ioglossus, 279 ; flesus, 280; 
limanda, 280 ; mia-ocephalus, 279; jAa- 
te-tsa, 279. 
Plover, golden, 21, 49, 212 ; grey, 213 ; 
shot near Kintradwell, 21 ; ringed, 
213; breeds at Badenloch, 27 ; "Plo- 
ver's page," 219. 
Poa, annua, maritima, pratensis, 31. 
Podiceps aicritus, 246 ; cri.ttaius, 245 ; 
fluviatilis, 246 ; griseigena, 245. 
Pochard, 191, 310. 
Pococke, Dr. Richard, Lord Bishop of 
Ossory, 4 ; on black-throated diver, 
244 ; The Toitr through 'Sutherland in 
1760, 4 ; on swans, 187. 
Pogge, 266. 
Pole, 279. 
Polecat, 65, 78, 303. 
Pollack, 275. 
Poll I gala vulgaris, 31. 
Porbeagle, 253. 
Porpoise, 86. 
Port Gower, 20 ; rock pipit about, 118 ; 
linnet at, 130. 
Portland, Duke of, 55 ; his collection at 
Wellbeck Abbey, 7, 9 ; his deer-forest, 
44, 56, 88. 
Portnacon, 17. 
Porzana maruetta, 207, 311. 
Potentilla anserina, 31 ; tormentilla, 31. 
Pout, 275. 
Power cod, 274. 
Pratincola ruhetra, 104 ; ruhicola, 104. 
Premiums offered for vermin, 299. 
Priest Island, 30. 
Primrose, Scotch, 54. 
Primula Scotica, 54. 
Pristiw'us melanostomus, 254. 
Procellaria leucorrhaea, 237 ; pelagica, 
237. 
Proc. of the Olasg. Nat. Hist. Soc, 7 ; 
on the squirrel, 90 ; on scaup, 192 ; 
on whimbrel, 225 ; on common tern. 
228 ; on glaucous gull, 234 note ; on 
palmated newt, 251. 
Proc. of Poijal Phi/s. Soc. of Edin., 6 ; 
on Caithness birds, 63 ; on scops- 
eared owl, 163 ; on the rough-legged 
buzzard, 167; on American bittern, 
183 ; on ivory gull, 230 ; on Leach's 
petrel, 237 note. 
Prunella vulgaris, 31. 
Ptarmigan, 203, 311 ; dying out on Ben 
Armine, 23 ; decrease of, in iScotland, 
203. 
Puffin, 242 ; on Handa, 40. 
Puffinus anglorum, 238. 
Pulteneytown, redstart at, 106 ; willow 
wren at, 110 ; tree pipit at, 118 ; wax- 
wing at, 120 ; rooks in chimneys of, 
150. 
Pyrrhocorax graculus, 145. 
Pyrrhula europcea, 132. 
QaAiL, 202, 311 ; nests near Dornoch, 21. 
Quarries of Caithness pavement, 48. 
Querquedida circia, 190 ; crecca, 189. 
Quiuaig, 28, 31, 34. 
Rabbit, 69, 95 ; swarms in Rabbit 
Island, 38. 
Rabbit Island, hen-harrier breeding on, 
164 ; sheldrake common on, 188. 
Raine, F. , of Durham, 163 ; hen-harriers 
in collection of, 165 ; goshawk in col- 
lection of, 170 ; Greenland falcon in 
collection of, 173. 
" Rain goose," 245. 
Rainworth Lodge, Nottingham, 7. 
Raja batis, 256 ; circularis, 256 ; clavata, 
256 ; fullonica, 256 ; lintea, 256 ; macu- 
lata, 256 ; radiata, 256. 
Ralliis aquaticus, 206, 311. 
Rana temporaria, 251. 
Rangifer tarandus, 66, 68, 86. 
Ranlceps trifurcus, 277. 
Rannoch, 33. 
Ranunculus acris, 31. 
Rat, black, 91 ; brown, 92. 
Rattar, 312 ; sparrow-hawk at, 171. 
Raven, 54, 151. 
Razorbill, 239 ; on Handa, 39. 
Ray, homelyn, 256 ; sandy, 256 ; shag- 
reen, 256 ; sharp-nosed, 256 ; starry, 
256 ; thornback, 256. 
Reay, 17 ; flow district in parish of, 25 ; 
parish of, 26, 87 ; sand-links of, 96. 
Reay Forest, 28, 30, 59, 60 ; fox in, 76 ; 
