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INDEX. 
Struthers, Professor, 83, 85. 
Stuart's Lays of the Deer Forest, 87. 
Sturgeon, 257. 
Sturnus vulgaris, 144, 305. 
Sucker, doubly-spotted, 271. 
Suilbhein, vii, 28, 31. 
Sula bassana, 62, 180. 
Summer Islands, 30. 
Sunfish, 296 ; oblong, 296. 
Surmullet, 259. 
Sus scrofa, 66, 67, 69, 86. 
Sutherland, snow bunting nests in, 3 ; 
coast-line of, 13; total area of, 14; 
Gaelic names in, 17 ; backbone of, 28 ; 
scenery of, 32 ; crofters of, 48 ; faunal 
position of, 59 ; water system of, 60 ; 
peat mosses of, 87 ; age of trees of, 
87. 
Sutherland Association, Annual Reports 
of the, 5. 
Sutherland, Duke of, 39 ; preserves best 
stags, 87 ; introduces American trout, 
290. 
Sutherland, John, of Inchnadamph, on 
the eagle, 169. 
Sutherland, J., 2; on the cole tit, 114; 
on ivory gull, 239 ; records glaucous 
gull near Wick, 234. 
Sutherland, J., of Huna, 50. 
Sutherland, Mr., bird-stuffer, 71. 
Swallow, 122. 
Swan, mute, 186 ; Bewick's, 187. 
Swanson of Rispond, on brent goose, 309. 
Swift, common, 153. 
Swinburne, J., 237 note. 
" Swirlies," 51 note. 
Swordfish, 261. 
Sylvia atricapilla, 108. 
Syngnathus acus, 295. 
Syre, nests of missel-thrush at, 97 ; whin- 
chat at, 104; marsh tit at, 114; sparrow 
common at, 127 ; nest of short-eared 
owl at, 161 ; heron breeds near, 181 ; 
black game in, 205. 
Syrnium aluco, 160. 
Syrrhapte-s paradoxus, 200. 
Tadorna cornuta, 187. 
Tain, 108 ; resort of seals visible from, 
81 ; pied flycatchers at, 121 ; crossbill 
shot near, 134. 
Tait, W. R., 150. 
Talpa europcm, 71. 
Tannera Beg, 30. 
Tannera More, 30. 
Tape- worm, destroys grouse in 1874, 204. 
Tarbert (or Tarbat), 38 ; ring-ouzel at, 
102 ; meadow pipit at, 118. 
Tay, faunal area of, 59. 
Taylor, Captain Robert, 81. 
Teal, 25, 189. 
Tegetmeier, his work on pigeons, 11. 
"Teitlan," 118. 
Tench, 282. 
Tennent takes merlin at Loch Gruagach, 
176. 
" Teogh-vingh," 224. 
Tern, Arctic, 227 ; common, 227 ; lesser, 
228 ; sandwich, 229. 
Tetrao tetrix, 205 ; urogallus, 206. 
Teugopiterus unimaculatus, 279 ; puncta- 
tus, 279. 
Thalassidroma pelac/ica, 144. 
" Thirle Door, the,'" 49. 
"Thistle cock," 135. 
Thomson, Rev. Charles, 6. 
Thrumster, 55 ; reed-bunting from, 137 ; 
hobby shot at, 175 ; ivory guU shot at, 
230. 
Thrush, missel, 97 ; song, 98 ; black- 
throated, 100. 
Thurso, 2, 44, 54 ; natural history of 
parish of, 4 ; sperm whale at, 85 ; bird 
collection in Town Hall of, 100 ; black- 
bird at, 101 ; stonechat at, 106 ; green- 
finch at, 126 ; rooks on Town Hall of, 
150 ; swift seen in, 153 ; barn owl in 
Bank at, 159 ; Iceland falcon seen at, 
173 ; merlin shot at, 176 ; golden-eye 
observed near, 192 ; ring-dove not 
common at, 198 ; black game from, 
206 ; eggs of water-hen from, 208 ; 
ivory gull shot at, 230 ; sturgeon got 
at, 258. 
Thurso Bay, 46 ; oblong sunfish taken in, 
296. 
Thurso Castle, sparrow-hawk at, 171 ; 
turnstone shot at, 215. 
Thurso river, 16, 19, 52 ; redshank 
along, 223. 
Titmouse, great, 113; long-tailed, 113; 
English cole, 114; marsh, 114. 
Tinea vidgaris, 282. 
Toad, common, 251. 
Tongue, 1, 15, 36, 38, 42 ; wild-cat found 
at, 75 ; fox at, 76 ; marten at, 77 ; 
stoat at, 78 ; polecat at, 78 ; badger 
extinct at, 80 ; rabbits killed in woods 
of, 95 ; missel-thrush at, 97 ; song- 
thrush at, 98 ; blackbird common at , 
