INDEX. 
339 
Skye, faunal position of, 61. 
Sletal, old forest and cairn of, 26. 
Slow worm, 249. 
Small, bird-stuffer, 109, 156 ; American 
bittern with, 183. 
Smew, 197. 
Smiles, S., Robert Dkleof Thurso{\9nS),S. 
Smith, Dr. J. A., exhibits scops-eared 
owl, 163 ; shoots rough-legged buzzard 
in Caithness, 167. 
Smoo Burn, .35 ; trout of, 289. 
Smoo Cave, 35 ; rocJi-dove in, 199. 
Smooth hound, 253. 
"Snig," 293. 
Snipe, common, 217 ; great, 217 ; jack, 
217. 
Snow bunting, nests in Sutherland, 3. 
Snowie, Mr., birdstufFer, 311. 
Sole, 280 ; lemon, 280. 
Solea lascaris, 280 ; lutea, 280 ; variegata, 
280 ; vulr/aris, 280. 
Solenette, 280. 
Solway, faunal area of, 59. 
Somateria moUissima, 194. 
Sorex vulgaris, 72. 
Souliskeir, 13 ; grey sfeal at, 82. 
Souter, Dr. , of Golspie, 83. 
South Kensington Museum, collection of 
nests, etc., at, 9. 
Sparrow-hawk, 170 ; house, 127 ; tree, 
128. 
Sparus dentex, 259. 
Spatula clypeata, 189. 
Speedie, Mr., tunny caught by fishermen 
of, 263. 
Spey, minnow introduced in (1883), 282. 
Spinningdale, Tengmalm's owl killed at, 
163. 
Spittal, merlin shot at, 176. 
Sprat, 292. 
Springbank, Thurso, eggs and nest of 
black scoter at, 195 ; turnstone pre- 
served at, 215. 
Spurn Point, Yorkshire, where grey 
plover leaves Britain, 213 note. 
Squalarola helvetica, 213. 
Squirrel, 89 ; in Scotland, 1630 A.D., 65. 
Stack, goosander at, 196. 
Stack Polly, 28. 
Stafford, Lord, 87. 
Stag, 67. 
" Stang fish," 264. 
Starling, 144, 305 ; on Handa, 40. 
Steenson, kills snowy owl, 162. 
Stemster, 150 ; willow wren at, 304 ; 
wren at, 304 ; pheasant introduced at, 
310. 
Stercorarius catarrhactes, 235 ; crepidatus, 
236 ; paraniticus, 236, 312 ; oma- 
torhlnus, 235. 
Sterna cantiaca, 229 ; fluviatilis, 227 ; 
macrura, 227 ; minuta, 228. 
Stewart, Rev. Alex. , records godwit, 225. 
Stewart, keeper at InverpoUy, observes 
kite, 172. 
Stickleback, 270; fifteen-spined, 271. 
Stint, little, 219 ; Temminck's, 219. 
Stirkoke, 54 ; wild cat got at, 75 ; missel- 
thrush breeds at, 98 ; flocks of field- 
fare at, 100 ; sedge-warbler breeding 
at, 112 ; magpie builds at, 146 ; night- 
jar at, 154 ; wryneck at, 156 ; long- 
eared owl breeds at, 160 ; buzzard shot 
at, 166 ; sparrow-hawk shot at, 171 ; 
pintail in Strath of, 190 ; x^heasant 
preserved at, 201. 
Stirling, .J., reports reed bunting at 
Gorm Lochs, 137. 
Stoat, 78 ; in Caithness, 77 ; on Ben 
Nevis, 78 note. 
Stock-dove, 310. 
"Stock-duck," 188. 
Stocks, Major, obtains American bittern, 
182. 
Stoir, 37, 42 ; meaning of, 17 ; light- 
house of, 41 ; Point of, skylark at, 
144 ; rooks feed at, 149 ; short-eared 
owl in, 160 ; heronry in, 181 ; grouse 
rare in, 204 ; torsk caught on cod 
banks of, 277. 
Stoir Head, peregrine falcon at, 174 ; 
rock-dove common at, 199 ; small- 
spotted dogfish taken off, 254 ; smooth - 
hound caught oft', 253. 
Stone Age, 66. 
Stone-chat, 105. 
Stornoway, herring-fishery of, 13, 292. 
Strathmore, 75 ; snowy owl at, 162 ; 
white-fronted geese common at, 309. 
Strathsteven, wolf-fish from, 268. 
Strathy, red-throated diver breeding 
about, 244. 
Strathy Bay, tunny taken in, 263. 
Strathy Point, 20, 45. 
Strepsilas interpres, 214. 
Strix Jlammea, 159, 306. 
Stroma, fishermen of, 51 note; oyster- 
catcher abundant at, 215. 
Stronchrubie, 31, 41 ; Pass of, 33 ; dis- 
appearance of martin from, 123. 
